Copy & Paste with new Magic Mouse

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Copy & Paste with new Magic Mouse

I recently purchased and installed the magic mouse and am pleased. I cannot figure out how to copy and paste using the right click and choose from context menu. When I copy by highlighting the subject, and then right click like I'm used to doing with the regular mouse, nothing happens except the highlighted words just go "un-highlighted" for lack of better terminology. No context menu pops up. Can someone steer me in the right direction please? Thanks.

IMac OS X, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Feb 26, 2010 7:53 PM

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mhiggins3sqj

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Feb 27, 2010 1:25 AM in response to Jgraider

Try this - open "System Preferences" and click on "Mouse" and set "One Finger: Secondary Click" to "Right" - this will set the front right side of the mouse to open up the context menus (similar to a Windows two button mouse). For some reason the default for this is set to "Left"

Good luck,

Mike

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red_menace

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Feb 26, 2010 9:05 PM in response to Jgraider

If you are still touching the mouse surface with the other finger then the right-click won't be seen as such. One of the things to get used to with the Magic Mouse is to not rest your fingers on it.

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