How to Point and Click the Mouse and Trackpad
Your Macintosh always displays a menu bar at the top of the screen. To choose a menu to open, move your mouse to move the pointer over a menu title, such as File or Edit. (Try it now!) To move the pointer with a trackpad, slide your finger on the trackpad surface.
Once you’ve moved the pointer to point to a menu on the screen, you can open that menu by pressing and releasing the left mouse button or by pressing down on the trackpad. Pressing the left mouse button or trackpad once and releasing it right away is known as clicking.
Practice pointing and clicking the mouse or trackpad:
Move the pointer over the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Click the left mouse button (or press the trackpad). ...
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