Mouse scroll wheel

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PDF Copy Paste is most efficient when used with a three-button, scroll wheel, mouse.

 

The scroll wheel, a notably different form of mouse-button, consists of a small wheel that the user can rotate to provide immediate one-dimensional input. Usually, this input translates into scrolling up or down within the active window. The wheel is often engineered with a detent to turn in short steps, rather than continuously, to allow the operator to more easily intuit how far they are scrolling.

 

The scroll wheel can provide convenience, especially when navigating a long document.

 

After you open a multi-page PDF document, you drags the slider of the scroll bar on the right side of the main window to page up and page down. In fact, you can do so with the scroll wheel on your mouse for better reading experiences.

 

Here are the steps,

 

1) Open a multi-page PDF file

 

2) Click the slider of the scroll bar on the right side of the main window to activate the scroll wheel

 

Scrollbar

 

3) Scroll down the scroll wheel on your mouse

 

You will see that you can navigate to the bottom of the current page and go to the top of the next page if you scroll further.

 

If your scroll wheel does not work for you, check the following,

 

1) Does the software lose focus after you click the slider?

 

2) Did you scroll your scroll wheel once or more than once?

 

3) Is your PDF file a multiple-page PDF file? Multiple-page PDF file consists of at least two pages.