Your Surface Type Cover has a touchpad with two buttons that you can use like a mouse. Use gestures on the touchpad to do things like scroll up and down, zoom in, and select items. You can also adjust settings to prevent the touchpad from responding to accidental touches and more.
If your Surface has a touchpad, it has right-click and left-click buttons that work like the buttons on a mouse.
Note: To keep accidental touches from making the cursor jump while you’re typing, you can set the delay before taps work, turn taps off, or turn the touchpad off. To learn how, see Change the touchpad settings.
Do this
If you want to
Press down on the left side of your touchpad
Press to click
Select an item
Left-click like on a mouse
Press down on the right side of your touchpad
Press to right-click
Open app commands in Windows apps or a context menu in desktop apps
Right-click like on a mouse
Tap one finger anywhere on the touchpad
Select an item
Left-click like on a mouse
Tap two fingers anywhere on the touchpad
Open app commands in Windows apps or a context menu in desktop apps
Right-click like on a mouse
Drag your finger on the touchpad
Moves the cursor
Swipe three fingers up on the touchpad
Display your virtual desktop
Press and hold the left touchpad button down and then slide a finger in any direction
Move an item or select text
Like moving a mouse while you hold down the left button
Tap, immediately tap and hold, then drag
Move an item or select text
Like moving a mouse while you hold down the left button
Slide two fingers horizontally or vertically
Scroll though a screen or document
Like dragging the scroll button on the screen, or using a scroll wheel on a mouse
Pinch your thumb and forefinger together or move them apart
Zoom in or out
Like the gestures on your touchscreen
You can swipe on your touchpad to quickly get to certain features and shortcuts. These gestures work with all Surface Type Covers and the Surface models that have a touchpad. For more info about other gestures, see Touch gestures on Windows.
You can change touchpad settings to turn the touchpad on and off, reverse scrolling direction, turn gestures on and off, and more.
Attach your Surface to its keyboard or Type Cover.
Do one of the following
On Windows 10, go to Start > Settings > Devices > Touchpad.
On Windows 11, go to Start > Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad.
Adjust your settings under Touchpad.
Though your touchpad is a fixed part of your laptop, your computer treats it partly as an external device. To change your touchpad's settings, you have to access your pad's driver, which manages the touchpad's interactions with your operating system. The pad's settings options vary between models. Some pads enable you to tap corners for program shortcuts and some interpret finger gestures as commands. Most pads can scroll through documents using their edges, which can help you navigate long Web pages and business reports.