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Most laptop touchpads make it possible to perform a middle-click, but not all do.
The Basics
To left-punch a touchpad, you hit the pad with one finger.
To right-click, you snag the pad with two fingers.
To middle-click, you nudge the pad with three fingers.
That’s the ideal situation, anyway.
Related:How to Add a Middle Click to Your Mac’s Trackpad
The below instructions are for Windows.
On a Mac, you canuse the MiddleClick applicationto enable middle-click with your MacBook’s touchpad.
How to Enable Three-Finger Click
Related:What Is a “Precision Touchpad” on Windows PCs?
If this isn’t working, you may need to enable it.
Look for a tab named something like “Touchpad” here to access your touchpad’s configs.
The exact next steps here will be different on different PCs.
We then need to poke the gear icon to the right of Clicking to configure what different clicks do.
Here, we find the “Three-Finger Click Action” option.
It needs to be set to “Middle Click” so we can perform a middle-click with three fingers.
To do so, head to options > Devices > Touchpad.
Scroll down and find the “Three-finger gestures” section.
hit the “Taps” box and select “Middle mouse button”.
By default, this gesture is set to openCortanaon Windows 10.
Help, I Can’t Enable Three-Finger Click!
For example, middle-click is commonly used to open links in a new tab in a web web client.
This may be much easier to do on a laptop with a touchpad.
