These mouse tricks involve the left button of your mouse.

1.  Double click the left button: highlights a word

2.  Triple click the left button: highlights a paragraph- No joke! Why didn't i do know this?

3.  Hold down the ALT and left mouse button: highlight a column of text 

4.  Select a particular amount of text- Click the left button on the character or word where you would like the choice to start out. Then move your cursor to the tip of where your selection. Hold down the SHIFT key and left click. you have got now highlighted your entire selection!

5. Left button hold + CTRL after you are dragging and dropping will COPY items

6. Left button hold + SHIFT once you are dragging and dropping will MOVE items

These next tricks should do with the mouse wheel or scroll wheel. The mouse wheel isn't just a wheel-- it's a button! displace the mouse wheel. this can be noted the "middle-click". The middle-click does various things in numerous programs.

7.   For instance, on an web page, using the middle-click on a link will automatically open the link in a new page.  So cool and quick! Now I can open every link in a new page rather than leaving the page I am on!

8.  Middle-click on a blank spot in a page and a navigation tool appears.  This enables you to move anywhere on the page quickly. Just lightly wiggle the mouse after you click. (In case you didn't know, "wiggle" is a very technical term. Ha!) This can be fast when going down or back up!

9.  Hold CTRL down while using the mouse wheel: zooms in or zooms out of the page you're viewing. If you hold CTRL and scroll up, it makes the page bigger. If you hold CTRL and scroll down. it makes the page smaller. i've got used this so so much! This works on the net but also in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint!

10.  Middle click on a tab in your browser for a fast thanks to close the tab! No more looking for that tiny 'x'.