Learn how to use touch gestures on the screen or touchpad of your Windows 11 or 10 device. Find out how to turn them on, change them, and see the actions for each gesture.

Your Surface Pro Keyboard or Surface Laptop has a touchpad with two buttons that you can use like a mouse. Use gestures on the touchpad to do things like scroll up and down, zoom in, and select items. You can also adjust settings to prevent the touchpad from responding to accidental touches and more. Use the touchpad

To change the default touch gestures on your Windows 11 PC, select Start > Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad. Select Three-finger gestures or Four-finger gestures to change what your swipe gestures do. See the common touchpad gestures for your Windows 10/11 device.

The 10-point multi-touch touchscreen lets you use your fingers to select, zoom, and move things around. For more info, see Touch gestures for Windows. Keyboard. Mechanical friction attaches the Clipboard to the keyboard.

If you're experiencing Surface touchscreen issues such as touch not responding on part or all of the screen, multi-touch gestures not working or your Surface Pen not inking, touch behaving inaccurately, your Surface experiencing "phantom" or "ghost" touches, touch being slow to respond, or not knowing how to disable touch on Surface, here are ...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot resize or rotate in an application after you close the Calculator. This issue occurs in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2.

You can use gestures to interact with Narrator and your device. To explore and hear items on a screen, drag one finger around the screen. When you hear an item that you want to use, double-tap the screen with one finger to activate it.

If you’re new to touch devices, learning a few gestures will help you take maximum advantage of the touch capabilities. To… Do this… Touch the screen and slide your finger up and down, left and right. Spread two fingers apart. Pinch two fingers together. To… Do this… Tap the location. Tap anywhere in some text. Tap the Keyboard key.

With just a swipe of your finger you can delete an email or flag one for follow-up. All it takes is a multi-touch trackpad or magic mouse. Open Outlook > Preferences. Choose Reading. Under Swipe Gestures, set Swipe left and Swipe right for: Delete, Archive, Mark as Read, or Flag. Open Outlook > Preferences. Choose Reading.

This appendix lists the keyboard commands and touch gestures available in the latest version of Windows. To view a list of all other keyboard shortcuts in Windows, see Keyboard shortcuts in Windows .