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SCROLLING IN EXPLORER WITH ARROW KEYS
Did you know that you can scroll the Windows Explorer
panes without using the mouse? (This tip might be useful
to you sometime when your mouse is acting up and has had
to be disconnected while you try to get it fixed or
replaced.) When you start up Explorer your left pane will
be the one that responds to the arrow keys. To activate
the right pane, you use the Tab key. (Then, to get back
to the left pane, use Shift and Tab.) If you have a
folder on the left pane selected (highlighted), and it
has subfolders (shown by the fact that there is a plus
sign in front of the folder name), then pressing the
right arrow expands the list of subfolders. Then, when
the list of subfolders is shown in expanded form,
pressing the left arrow will close up the expansion. If
you use the up and down arrow keys on the left pane, it
will scroll it up or down (and likewise on the right pane
if you have that activated), but it will also change the
selected folder to whatever your up or down arrow last
moved to. So that means the right pane will be modified
also, because it will show the contents of the new folder
selected by the up or down arrow. If, on the other hand,
you press the Ctrl key simultaneously with the up or down
arrow, then you can scroll whichever pane you have
activated without moving the current selection.
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