Top 10 Mouse Tips to Improve Your Work Productivity

Today I was just playing with my computer's mouse and I found some cool tricks and hidden advantages of getting things done through mouse.
You can perform various actions and tasks just from your mouse such as closing tabs on web browser, zoom in and zoom out,switching tabs, selecting random test and copying it to clipboard at once. 

In this post, I will discuss various uses and tricks of a mouse for your computer. I will explain how you can improve your productivity by using these secret mouse functions.

Here are some of the functions and features of a mouse that most of your won't know.

1. Holding down the Ctrl key, then double click on different parts of text document and then click Ctrl+C to copy those random text parts simultaneously. This will be very helpful when you need to copy selected words or lines from a document to other file.
2. Hold down shift key, click on the beginning of a paragraph and at the endpoint to highlight desired text, then Ctrl+C to copy the selected text to clipboard.
3. Press down the mouse wheel on a link to open the link in new tab in a browser.  Press down the Mouse wheel on any open tab to close it down.
4. Zoom in and out on any webpage, word document by holding down the Ctrl key and scrolling up and down with mouse wheel.
5. Hold down the shift key, Scroll up and down to move forward and backward while browsing internet in any web browser. This will improve your web browsing experience.
6. Double click to select a word, triple click to select whole paragraph, double click and then drag the mouse to select one word at a time in any browser or document.
7. Highlight any word or text line, drag it to any place, window or any other text area to paste the highlighted text or line. This is very helpful for filling various web forms.
8. Move your Mouse pointer automatically to the default button in a dialog box by enabling "Snap To" function  under Pointer Options under Mouse Properties. 
• By enabling Snap To feature, the mouse cursor will automatically moves to Ok button (default action button in various dialog boxes). 
9. The new mouse devices have some additional left and right buttons as well to perform various functions. These buttons can be configured to do custom functions such as moving back or forward while browsing internet. This will improve your productivity and browsing experience also.
10. Last but not least, you can use your keyboard arrow keys as an alternative to mouse by configuring it through Control Panel. You can enable mouse keys  by shortcut keys Alt + Left Shift + Numlock.

If you guys have any other tips to play with mouse device, please do  share with us through comments.