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Make7

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6. You're not supposed to be using scroll bars on a touch device.
Thu May 15, 2014, 02:53 AM
May 2014

Normally you can just drag a single finger (or two fingers for some apps/functions) along the screen to scroll.

If something doesn't seem to do what you think it should, Google the app and what you're trying to do - odds are someone on the internets has figured it out and posted an explanation (or a million people will be proclaiming how awful product x is because it can't do foo).

I haven't used Windows on a touch device, so I can't offer any specific help. But I am always amazed at how many basic functions people with smartphones and tablets fail to learn/figure out. Granted some things are not always obvious - but that's what the Google is for. (Or I suppose you could do something crazy like read the manual and/or help section for the product.)

As far as hitting small things, they should be programming objects so they're at least big enough to trigger reliably - but if the stuff is just too tiny, usually it is easy enough to just zoom in closer, hit the damn thing, and zoom out again. I guess it somewhat depends on the app though...

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