My mouse doesn’t seem to have a secondary or right-hand mouse button. How can I right-click on an item, as has been suggested in many of the Mac guides here on the About: Macs web site?
The Mac has supported multi-button mice since Mac OS 8 was released in 1997. Even before then, there were mouse drivers you could install in order to use multi-button mice on a Mac.
Apple currently ships a multi-button mouse called the Mighty Mouse with all new Macs. The Mighty Mouse actually has multiple button surfaces, but because it appears not to have any buttons, many users believe it’s a single-button mouse.
To add more confusion, Apple by default assigns the left and right mouse buttons to the same function (Primary Button), so no matter which button you press, you get the same results.
Luckily, you can change the button functions on the Mighty Mouse by following the ‘Multi-Button Mice: Enable Right Mouse Button On Your Mac’ tip.
If your mouse really is a single-button mouse, you can make the equivalent of a right-click by pressing the Control key while clicking the mouse button.
