FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA (03/27/84)
From: Ron <FISCHER@RUTGERS.ARPA> Works fine for me. Perhaps you could try holding it differently? If you lay your arm (palm down of course) touching the table up to your wrist, then you tend to grab the mouse (for right hander) on the left side with your thumb, leaving the index finger on top for button pressing, and the pinky and next closest on the right side. Held this way the ball is between and under the fingers doing the positioning. For MacWrite, with the mouse in "fast" movement mode (set on the control panel) this is pretty ideal. You need very little desk space to go from one sceen edge to the other. For fine movement you actually can use your fingertips to position it. Larger movements are accomplished like with a pencil, you lift your forearm, or elbow depending on how grand a swoop you need. (ron) -------