Re:Ask HN: Temporarily using one hand, help
by mywacaday on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:16PM
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Thanks, have already reversed the mouse, sticky keys is a good one, will try it. Dictating emails in outlook is proving quiet accurate needing only minor touch ups. Excel and PowerPoint are proving tougher though.
First, you can turn on sticky keys. (I think you can activate it by pressing "shift" five times in a row.) This means that keys like shift, control, and alt "stay pressed" if you press and release the key, so that you can press control, release it, then press p (or whatever), and Windows reads that as cntrl-p, even though you weren't holding down the control key when you pressed the p key.
Second, you can reverse the buttons on the mouse, if that makes it easier for you.
But, you're just going to be slower for 6 to 8 weeks. There's no way around it. (On the plus side, you might gain some dexterity in your non-dominant hand.)
We don't think of ourselves as "people who work with their hands", but we do...