Triple Clicking

[SimpleSi]

Who knew about triple clicking?

You learn something everyday

 

Si

[elsiegee40]

You missed 'I googled it to double check before I answered ' from your survey!

[Dos_Box]

Bizzare, been doing it for years, but never knew it had a name!

[elsiegee40]

Bizzare, been doing it for years, but never knew it had a name!

 

Even God had to Google

[MK-2]

same as dosbox, i've been doing that for years, much easier when selecting things. the annoying bit is when you try to triple click, click four times by mistake and then think "i'll triple click again" and end up clicking about 15 times before you actually get what you want!

[SimpleSi]

Bizzare, been doing it for years, but never knew it had a name!

 

I just used to think it was an error condition

Si

[webman]

same as dosbox, i've been doing that for years, much easier when selecting things. the annoying bit is when you try to triple click, click four times by mistake and then think "i'll triple click again" and end up clicking about 15 times before you actually get what you want!

 

Snap!

[SimpleSi]

We all did it - but who knew it was a feature and not a bug

 

Show me where is says

 

"To move to a postion, move mouse and click, to select a word, double-click, to select the whole paragraph, triple click"

 

in the manual

 

Si

[SYNACK]

I have been using that since office 97.

[AngryTechnician]

I actually taught it to a teacher just yesterday.

[JoeBloggs]

Been doing it ages but didn't know it had a name too

[unixman]

As a Linux user, it's single click for me. Never understood this double click nonsense.

[Chad]

Also used it for years - more so in browser address bars than office, where I find it the easiest/quickest way to select the entire address line (after falling in the 15 click trap mentioned above and clicking too quickly past the initial click which selects all anyway...

[LosOjos]

I've voted "of course", although in reality I didn't know there was a name for it, just knew it was a quick way of highlighting a line of text!

[gshaw]

Reading the title I thought "what?!" then realised it's what I've been doing for years without even thinking about it being 3 clicks

[Jamman960]

Have been using it for ages without realising, I wonder if most non-tech users are aware of it

[CESIL]

I first saw this in 1996 when I was working at the launch of Corel's first new version of WordPerfect (v7) and triple clicking was one of the new whizzy features.

 

The presenter actually made a (sort of) joke by asking if anyone could guess what happened if you clicked 4 times...answer...you get a sore finger...

 

[edit] It is also one of the things I show users and I don't think I have found one who realised that it is a deliberate feature [/edit]

[Jawloms]

I do get somewhat frustrated when it doesn't work!

[MK-2]

The presenter actually made a (sort of) joke by asking if anyone could guess what happened if you clicked 4 times...answer...you get a sore finger...

 

damn you, i was going to ask if anyone has tried clicking 4 times to see what happens and see how many go off and do it

 

you've ruined it now

[penfold]

same as dosbox, i've been doing that for years, much easier when selecting things. the annoying bit is when you try to triple click, click four times by mistake and then think "i'll triple click again" and end up clicking about 15 times before you actually get what you want!

 

This is the reason I stopped using it, clickity clickty clickity ... If I'm using word I tend to use the left hand margin or shortcut keys these days.

[Oaktech]

i just didn't know what it was called!

[SYNACK]

I'm suprised that people did not know what it was called, it does seem like a standard progression:

single click

double click

triple click

[LosOjos]

I'm suprised that people did not know what it was called, it does seem like a standard progression:

single click

double click

triple click

 

it is obvious when you think about it, I had just never considered that it was something that was used widely enough to have been "named" (I only ever used it in Word)

[MK-2]

it is obvious when you think about it, I had just never considered that it was something that was used widely enough to have been "named" (I only ever used it in Word)

 

be honest, you thought you were so special you'd discovered a special hidden click that allows you to do things. didn't you?

 

DIDN'T YOU!?

[LosOjos]

be honest, you thought you were so special you'd discovered a special hidden click that allows you to do things. didn't you?

 

DIDN'T YOU!?

 

Yes, but don't tell everyone...

 

At least nobody else knows about my double clicking interweb linky-things to make them load quickerer! Drats!