Mouse and Touchscreen Navigation

Keyboard Shortcuts

When the documentation says to select, highlight, or place the focus on a button, field, or toolbar, mouse or touchscreen users can simply click or touch that button or field.

Note: Not all Point of Sale windows support touchscreen use. For example, managerial tasks, such as running reports and creating purchase orders, are not efficient touchscreen tasks and therefore touchscreen use is not supported in those areas.

Enabling Touchscreen Controls

Enable touchscreen use and add the touchscreen controls to Point of Sale by selecting Enable Touchscreen Features in workstation preferences. (From the File menu, choose Preferences, and then select Workstation.)

Note: Touchscreen Controls in Dialogs

Touchscreen Tips

- Reducing your video resolution to 800 x 600 can make touching small fields easier, but there may be tradeoffs with the display of other features at this resolution.

- Double-touching in quick succession has the same effect as double-clicking with a mouse.

- Touch, hold, and drag to reposition column headers and separators.

- Your touchscreen controls may be customized through software provided by the manufacturer. Generally, you can access this software from the Windows Control Panel.

- The size of your scroll bars can be changed to make touch scrolling easier. Go to Control Panel Display Appearance. Select A dvanced and then Scroll bar from the Item list and set the size that works best for you. Note: This changes the scroll bar size for all of your Windows programs. (Directions are for Windows XP; may vary in other Windows versions.)

- Touch screen monitors are ideal for certain activities, such as ringing up sales, where you are making selections from predefined data lists. However, when data must be entered into records, such as when initially setting up the system, running reports, or entering your preference settings, you will find that a hybrid system including a keyboard (for entering data) is more efficient.

- Consider turning on your Microsoft Windows touchscreen keyboard to facilitate typing within Point of Sale.

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