Using a Laptop: Keyboard, Mouse and Touchpad Basics

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About Course

If you are new to a Windows laptop, the touchpad and keyboard can feel fiddly at first. This course explains the touchpad, a plug-in mouse and the most useful keys and shortcuts, step by step, and shows you how to make the pointer bigger and keys easier to use.

Tutwoo is an independent learning provider. This course gives general information for older people and their families, based on published guidance from Microsoft and AbilityNet. Menus can differ between versions of Windows and laptop makers. Tutwoo is not connected with Microsoft.

© 2026 Tutwoo UK Limited. This course was created in-house by Tutwoo and is our original work. It is for your own learning only: please do not copy, share, record or resell it.

What Will You Learn?

  • Use a laptop touchpad and a mouse to point, click, scroll and right-click
  • Find and use the most important keys on a laptop keyboard
  • Use a handful of time-saving keyboard shortcuts, including undo, copy and paste
  • Make the pointer bigger and keys easier to press using Windows accessibility settings

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • The touchpad and the mouse
  • Finding your way around the keyboard
  • Shortcuts and making it easier

Sources & Further Reading
The official guidance this course is based on.

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