Your Surface Type Cover 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
If your Surface has a touchpad, it has right-click and left-click buttons that work like the buttons on a mouse.
Note: To keep accidental touches from making the cursor jump while you’re typing, you can set the delay before taps work, turn taps off, or turn the touchpad off. To learn how, see Change the touchpad settings.
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Press down on the left side of your touchpad |
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Press down on the right side of your touchpad |
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Tap one finger anywhere on the touchpad |
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Tap two fingers anywhere on the touchpad |
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Drag your finger on the touchpad |
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Swipe three fingers up on the touchpad |
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Press and hold the left touchpad button down and then slide a finger in any direction |
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Tap, immediately tap and hold, then drag |
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Slide two fingers horizontally or vertically |
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Pinch your thumb and forefinger together or move them apart |
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Get started with touchpad gestures
You can swipe on your touchpad to quickly get to certain features and shortcuts. These gestures work with all Surface Type Covers and the Surface models that have a touchpad. For more info about other gestures, see Touch gestures on Windows.
Change the touchpad settings
You can change touchpad settings to turn the touchpad on and off, reverse scrolling direction, turn gestures on and off, and more.
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Attach your Surface to its keyboard or Type Cover.
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Do one of the following
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On Windows 10, go to Start > Settings > Devices > Touchpad.
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On Windows 11, go to Start > Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad.
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Adjust your settings under Touchpad.
