Your favourite programs' best features are hidden in the right-click menu, Jane Hoskyn reveals how to make software even better with a click
Right-click a file in Windows, and what do you see? Save, Delete, Copy, ‘Open with’ and, for when you’re in an investigative mood, Properties. You may not be able to recite the right-click menu by heart, but you use it so often it’s almost auto-pilot.
It’s surprising, then, that we don’t make more use of right-click menus in other software. Programs you use every day have their very own right-click (‘context’) menus that contain useful shortcuts and hidden administrative tools. Even Microsoft’s own programs bury their cleverest tricks behind the lesser-clicked button on your mouse.
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