Windows 10 Bible

Appendix D

Windows 10 Touch Gestures

In This Appendix

1. Getting acquainted with the touch interface
2. Exploring Windows 10 touch gestures

On laptop or desktop computers, you use keyboard and mouse movements for most tasks, but with Windows-based tablets, you can use Windows 10 touch interface gestures. These are hand gestures that you can use instead of keystrokes or mouse clicks.

Table D.1 lists touch gestures and a description of those gestures. Other gestures may be available for a particular Windows app that you're running, and not all these gestures in the table are available with every app. Each app has only the gestures that the app developer programmed into it.

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Table D.1 Windows 10 Touch Interface Gestures

This Action	Does This
Slide your finger left or right.	Scrolls through the screens.
Tap once.	Starts an app.
Swipe from the right side of the screen toward the middle.	Displays the Notifications pane, which also includes controls for tablet mode, VPN connections, connecting devices, and opening the Settings app.
Swipe down.	Displays additional menus.
Press and hold down on an item and then move it.	Enables you to move an item onscreen.