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Speaking as a leftie (and proud of it), I've always been interested in
issues affecting left-handed people in this world. I for one always switch
the mouse buttons wherever I'm working. In fact, my 10-year-old non-leftie
daughter (she's the odd one out: her two sisters are both lefties) learned
how to switch the mouse buttons "back" to work on the computer (now if I
could only get her to remember to switch them back again when finished).
Most lefties I know either use their right hand to manipulate the mouse, or
use their left hand but don't bother to switch the buttons. In my last
company, half of the writing team was made up of lefties, and none switched
the mouse buttons. I'm usually the only person in the company who switches
the buttons. (Okay, I admit it. I take a perverse pleasure in watching
righties have trouble with my mouse. Provides them with some insight into
my world.)
I never have trouble with the term right click. I know what it means, and I
click with my middle finger as would a right handed person working on a
"regularly" configured mouse. I also always document it as right-click and
rarely bother mentioning the name of the menu. ("Right click the tab and
then click Close Page.") However, I follow Microsoft standard in this
matter and call the menu the "shortcut menu" when I do refer to it.
HTH,
Sharon
Sharon Deitch
Technical Writer
SintecMedia
Jerusalem, Israel
sharon -at- sintecmedia -dot- com
"It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one
has any idea where they're going." Despair, Inc.
>
>
> Megan Rock mouses around <<... with my left hand and have my
> mouse buttons
> reversed. I recently went through several tutorials in a
> manual that kept
> telling me to right-click. I'll admit that even though I'm
> quite competent
> with a
> computer, I still had to think twice to figure out that for me,
> "right-clicking" really meant "left-clicking.">>
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