Mac to PC - some basic help needed, please.

prowla

My Mac's mouse has two buttons, a left and a right one. Some Mac mice don't and only give you the left button (in which case you get the right button functionality by pressing a keyboard key too). Non-Apple mice can give the 2-buttons functionality.

You drag a window on Windows using the title bar, just like you do on a Mac.

You highlight text for cut&paste by dragging the mouse over it left button pressed, just like on a Mac. On a Mac you could use Command-X/C/V for cut/copy/paste, and on Windows (and other OSes) you use Control-X/C/V.

wba31

adouglasmhor wrote: »

They just said there was read it again.

And I'm questionning why there are so "hideous" when they are great pieces of kit...

Idiophreak

One button mouse?...I'm adding that to "no hash key" on my list of serious issues with macs

adouglasmhor

wba31 wrote: »

And I'm questionning why there are so "hideous" when they are great pieces of kit...

Why don't you get one for work then?

wba31

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Why don't you get one for work then?

had no idea they were available for windows (coupled with the fact i didnt think they would be available)

pollypenny

My whole reason for asking was to know how to operate the damn thing on my lap, without using a mouse.

paddyrg

adouglasmhor wrote: »

That was badly setup - no reason you cant Skype from Mac to Windows to Linux to Android to BSD to Symbian to ChromeOS or any other OS which has Skype available.

Just a hunch - perhaps the Mac (a G5 or whatever) didn't have a microphone built in?