I just made the switch to Mac and am very used to right-clicking to accomplish various tasks. Can I right click on a Mac?
The one-button mouse symbolizes Apple’s philosophy of keeping things as simple as possible, but it is still possible to right-click your way to the context menu on a Mac.
Method 1: Control-Click
Hold down the control (ctrl) key and click the mouse button. This ctrl-click combination tells your Mac that you want to right-click, and the context menu will appear.
Method 2: Get a two-button mouse
Macs support two-button mice even though Apple’s design is only for one button. Any two-button mouse that is Mac compatible will work, and will let you right-click with the right mouse button instead of the cmd-click trick.
Method 3: Two-finger tap
Reader Matt T. wrote in with another method of right-clicking.
[tags]Mac OS X,apple[/tags]…one more way of doing it (on new Macbooks etc) is to hit two fingers on the trackpad at the same time, works like a charm and is much better than CTRL-click.
