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Windows 8 Touch Gestures

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For many people, touch will be new to their Windows experience. In many ways, such as with tapping and double-tapping, touch operates in the same way you would expect a mouse click to work. Table A-1 contains a complete list of the touch gestures you can use with Windows 8. Those who already have been using touch will be pleased to hear that the gestures haven’t changed. Some new gestures have been added, though, and those are included in the table.

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Halsey, M. (2013). Windows 8 Touch Gestures. In: Beginning Windows 8.1. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6359-3_16

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