Initially, the computer was equipped only with a keyboard, and the computer mouse appeared much later. Such a gadget is undoubtedly convenient, but many manipulations can be performed without it.

You will need

• - keyboard;
• - touchpad.

Instruction

According to statistics, one of the most frequently replaced peripheral devices on a personal computer is the mouse. In addition, most motherboard models still have PS/2 connectors, lilac for the keyboard, green for the mouse. When you unplug a device from this connector and plug it back in, unlike USB, you need to restart the operating system. Is it possible to work with a computer without a mouse, for example, to restart it or turn it off? Yes, you can.

There are several basic ways to use a personal computer without a mouse:

• working with key combinations (keyboard shortcuts, hot keys, accelerators);
• launching the mouse emulator from the keyboard;
• use of a “touch panel” or “scroll ball”;
• using a command processor (for Windows 95 – 7), or “PowerShell” (for Windows 8 – 10);
• use of additional software (software shells, commanders, shell).

Conventionally, hot keys can be divided into the following groups:

Descriptions of combinations and results from the execution of the first two groups are determined by specific software. For example, the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+N” in the Google Chrome browser window will create a new tab, and in the game “TES4” it will go into stealth mode and use an active spell. Each product can have its own combinations, which can be found in the program information or manuals.

In this article we will look at the global group of the operating system. First of all, it's worth mentioning modifier keys. Typically, this is the lower left corner of the keyboard, which includes “Shift”, “Ctrl”, “Win”, “Alt”. Almost all operations are performed using the indicated buttons.

The main combinations for working with the system are given in the table.

Important! When using, remember that they are duplicated on the right side of the keyboard, however, some key combinations only work when using the left ones.

Launching the mouse emulator

Step 1. Use the accelerator "Alt+Shift+NumLock".

Important! This is exactly the case when you need to use modifiers on the left side of the keyboard.

Step 2. In the prompt window, use the navigation buttons (right and left arrows) to highlight the Yes button and press Enter.

On a note! When a button is selected, a frame of dots appears inside its borders. To select the desired answer, you can use the combination “Alt+D" or "Alt+H." All buttonsWindows, as well as menu items, contain an underlined letter. Using the modifier "Alt", and by clicking the letter corresponding to the button, you can do without a mouse. With proper skill, the use of modifiers increases the speed of working with a computer.

Step 3. After confirming the start of the service, a mouse icon should appear in the tray. Now you can control the pointer using the buttons on the numeric keypad.

The meanings of the buttons are shown in the table.

Video - How to control the cursor without a mouse

Using a “touch panel” or “scroll ball”

“Touch panel” is a device for working with a cursor. The most striking representative of the use of a “touch panel” is a smartphone or tablet computer, which, in fact, is this device. By sliding your finger across the screen, you can control the cursor. This method of working without a mouse is suitable for some models of laptops and all-in-one computers.

Important! Do not confuse “touch panel” and “touch pad”. The touchpad is a manipulating device separate from the screen. “Touch panel” – built into the monitor.

Some modern keyboard models have an analogue of a mouse - a “scroll-ball”. It is a movable ball recessed into the body. By moving your palm over it, you can move the cursor across the monitor screen. A mouse click is emulated by pressing the ball, or by using special buttons that imitate mouse buttons.

Using the command handler

The command processor is a legacy of the era of the disk operating system (DOS, MS-DOS), when the personal computer OS did not have a user interface. The work took place by sequentially typing commands.

Step 1. To launch the handler, use the “Win+R” accelerator. In the application that appears, enter the command “cmd”.

Step 2. Use preset keys to control your computer.

The list of basic commands for working with the operating system is presented in the table.

Important! Help for each of the commands (syntax, sequence rules, keys) is available by entering the following query: “[command key]help" (for example,shutdownhelp). Pay attention to the registers of the keys. Keyphrases themselves are not case sensitive, but file/folder names are.

For most users, the computer mouse has become an indispensable assistant and an integral tool for performing all computer operations. Meanwhile, most commands, including copying various texts, can be performed without using it by using special key combinations on the keyboard. Copying text from the keyboard without using the mouse is also often much faster and more convenient.

How to copy text without a mouse on a laptop

If you took your favorite laptop for work, but at the same time forgot the mouse pointing device for it, and using the touchpad gives you complete inconvenience, then the following skills will help you work with texts, in particular copying information into them.

Before copying, you need to select that part of the text that will, in fact, be copied. You can do this as follows. Place the cursor at the beginning of the copied area. This can also be done without a mouse by moving the cursor over the text using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
When the cursor is positioned, press the Shift key and, without releasing it, use the arrows again to select text. In this case, the Left and Right arrows will select or deselect character by character, and the Up and Down arrows will line by line.
If you need to select text in a multi-page document, then, together with the Shift key held down, you can use the Page Up and Page Down keys, which will select or deselect the text page by page. If necessary, you can always adjust the selected area using the arrows, provided that the Shift key is not released.
If you need to copy all the text, then without touching the Shift keys, press the key combination Ctrl + A (A - English).
After selecting the desired part of the text, release the Shift key and press the Ctrl + C key combination to copy the previously selected text to the clipboard.
To paste copied text, place the cursor where it should begin and press Ctrl + V.

On regular desktop computers, copying text without a mouse is performed in the same way.

How to select text using the keyboard?

Most often, most computer users use a computer mouse to select text. However, there are situations in which the desired piece of text in a document stubbornly refuses to stand out. Instead, either a significantly larger part of the text than necessary, or a smaller one, is highlighted. In this case, highlighting text using the keyboard can help, which allows you to achieve an accurate result, saving you time and saving your nervous system. Also, selecting text from the keyboard is useful when selecting multi-page tests, as it allows you to perform the operation much faster than using the mouse.

How to highlight text using the keyboard

Place the cursor at the beginning of the selected fragment. If it doesn't work out the first time, don't worry. You can always adjust the cursor position using the left and right arrows on the keyboard.
Once the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the text being selected, press the Shift key on your keyboard and the Right arrow key. The cursor will begin to move while highlighting the text from the beginning of its path. Once the desired piece of text is completely selected, release the arrow button and then the Shift key.
Press the context menu selection key on your keyboard or right-click on the selected text and select “Copy” from the context menu that appears. As a result, the selected text will be copied, placed on the clipboard and ready for subsequent pasting.

There are also various additional options for selecting text using the keyboard, which in some cases turn out to be very useful.

To quickly select all text in an open document, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A (A - English from the word all - everything).
To select text not character by character, but word by word (whole words), press the Ctrl key on your keyboard before pressing Shift. Thus, Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow will highlight words to the right of the cursor, and Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow will highlight words to the left.
The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow and Ctrl + Shift + Down Arrow highlight text in paragraphs above and below the cursor, respectively.
The keyboard shortcuts Shift + PageUp and Shift + PageDown select text in the document page up and down, respectively.
The keyboard shortcuts Shift + Home and Shift + End select text from the cursor to the beginning of the line and to the end, respectively.
The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + Shift + Home and Ctrl + Shift + End select text from the cursor position to the beginning and to the end of the document, respectively.

Remembering these keyboard shortcuts is very easy. To do this, you just need to practice selecting texts using the indicated methods and you will certainly appreciate the benefits of using “hot keys” when operating with fragments of text documents.

How to copy text using the keyboard?

Many modern users now find it difficult to believe, but all computer functions can be performed from the keyboard, without using a mouse. Out of habit, this will seem very inconvenient and illogical, but this is so only at first glance. Using keyboard shortcuts to control computer functions, rather than using the mouse, allows you to perform many operations much faster. All users who have growing experience in working in various programs are gradually coming to use such combinations, or as they are commonly called “hot keys”.

When you work with text editors, write review articles, type or edit documents, you will very often use copy and paste operations of various pieces of text. Once you have mastered performing these operations using hot keys, you will be pleasantly surprised at how more efficient and convenient it is.

How to copy text using the keyboard

Open any text document. In this case, it is not at all necessary that the file from which the copy is made be opened in the same editor as the document into which this text will be inserted.

You can copy text from Notepad and paste it into Microsoft Word with equal success.

The main thing is that the file itself is a text type or contains information in this form.
Select the desired part of the text with the mouse. To do this, place the cursor at the beginning of the desired fragment, press the left mouse button and, without releasing the button, move the cursor to the end of the desired section of text. Release the button. As a result of this action, the selected fragment will be indicated with a blue background color.

If you want to select all the text of the current document, then press the key combination Ctrl + A (A - English). First, press the Ctrl key and, without releasing this button, also press the A key.
Once the text is selected, it can be copied to the clipboard (RAM). To do this, press the key combination Ctrl + C.
Open the document in which you want to paste the copied text. Place the cursor at the place where this bet should appear and press the key combination Ctrl + V.

We guarantee that once you master the technique of copying text using the keyboard, you will be surprised how much faster and more convenient it is than regularly calling up the context menu by right-clicking the mouse to copy and paste text.

At the end of the article, we present these and some other keyboard shortcuts useful for working in text editors in the form of a small table.

Ctrl + A - Select all text in a document
Ctrl + C - Copy selected text
Ctrl + V - Paste copied text from the clipboard into a document
Ctrl + X - Delete selected text fragment
Ctrl + Backspace - Delete the word to the left of the cursor
Ctrl + Delete - Delete the word to the right of the cursor

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How to copy and paste text?

Copying and pasting is the most common operation. To copy text, you first need to select it. You can select text in different ways.

Place your mouse pointer at the beginning of the piece of text you want to highlight. Click and hold the mouse button and move the mouse (1).

When the pointer is over the end of the desired fragment, release the button.

The text is highlighted - it appears in white font on a blue background (2).

The second way is to select using the key Shift and arrow keys. Press and hold the key Shift. Each press of the arrow key expands the selection by one digit of the selection. (3).

It is convenient to select individual words by double-clicking, and entire paragraphs by triple-clicking the mouse button (4).

To copy selected text, press the keyboard shortcut ctrl+c. To cut selected text, press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+X (5).

Click the mouse in the place in the document where you want to paste the copied or cut piece of text.

Press keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V (6).

Text inserted!

In the same way, you can select, cut, copy, paste text in the windows of various applications, as well as in the input fields of dialog boxes.

For example, you opened a web page in your browser. Let's try to copy part of the text from it and paste it into a text document opened in Notepad.

Select part of the text in the browser window using any of the following methods.

Press keyboard shortcut ctrl+c.

You can do it differently. Right-click on the selected text.

A context menu will open. Select a command from it Copy.

The selected text fragment will be copied to memory.

Run the program Notebook. It will open with a new blank document.

Click where you want to paste the copied text. Press keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V.

Another way is to right-click where you are going to paste the text. In the context menu, select the command Insert.

The text is pasted into Notepad.

Likewise, you can copy and paste the next snippet, etc.

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In the Mac OS operating system, all actions performed using keyboard shortcuts are different from Windows. Therefore, new users of this platform should familiarize themselves with the given material to learn how to copy on a MacBook.

What can you copy?

• text material;
• files;

In many ways, the methods described are similar. Each of them is described in detail later in the article.

How to copy and paste text on a MacBook without a mouse?

How to copy and paste text on a MacBook without a keyboard?

If you are using a connected computer mouse, then use the following instructions:

How to copy a file on MacBook?

Now let's figure out how you can copy any file in the Mac OS operating system. The principle of action here is exactly the same:

1. you select the file and press Command+c, or RMB+Copy;
2. after that, go to the folder where you want to send the file and press Command+v, or RMB+Paste.
3. You don’t have to open the destination folder, but simply hover over it and press Command+V at that moment. This “trick” saves a lot of time and allows you to always keep your desktop clean.

How to copy photos from iPhone to MacBook?

1. First, you need to connect your mobile device to your Mac computer using a USB cable.
2. Then open the Photos app on your laptop.
3. In the “Import” tab you will see all the photos that are on your iPhone.
4. Use the steps above to copy the photos you need to your Macbook's internal storage.