Double tap to left click and drag on trackpad

Anonymous
2013-10-25T13:45:34+00:00

Hello, I was trying to find a way to click and drag by using the Type Cover 2 trackpad without keeping the left mouse button pressed. Most touchpads nowadays register a rapid double click as a "left click and drag" command and, according to the documentation on Microsoft's website, the Type Cover 2 should as well. However, I tried to use the feature both in Desktop programs and UI apps with no success. How to left click and drag without keeping the trackpad's left mouse button pressed?

Edit: called the customer service, and I was told that the team is aware of the issue and that a fix is planned.

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Anonymous
2014-04-09T01:07:12+00:00

With 8.1 update 1, type/touch cover 2 can now perform double tap-drag. All hail lord Microsoft.

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Anonymous
2013-11-21T02:57:03+00:00

Greetings all,

The “Tap, then tap and slide one finger in any direction"  gesture to perform a “left-click and drag” is not supported in Windows 8.1 for precision touchpads such as Touch Cover 2 and Type Cover 2.

The “left-click and drag” function can be performed on Touch Cover 2 and Type Cover 2 by holding the left touchpad button down and then sliding a finger in any direction.

We’ll be updating the inaccurate information in Touchpad: A built-in mouse.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-05T21:14:42+00:00

    Dear Moderator Steve_B,

    your final answer is in fact a little disappointing. This tap-tap-drag is every-day business when working with a precision(!) touchpad and trying to use Surface as a full valued Windows device.

    Moreover, your answer is from November, and by now the misleading information you promised to update is still there. Hope this indicates that your information is not the last word in this matter of technology.

    Best regards

    Rainer

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-12-25T19:24:25+00:00

    So perhaps more than anyone else, this is a feature that I absolutely must have reinstalled. My right hand is partially paralyzed and without a functioning thumb, the double tap and drag feature is critical. I clearly would not have bought a Surface and Type 2 cover had the documentation for the hardware been accurate. When Microsoft secretly made this change, it had a serious effect on mobility limited users. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an option to require a change back to the stated operating features under the Americans With Disabilities Act....

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-12-19T22:40:17+00:00

    I stumbled on this lack of tap-then-tap and drag functionality shortly after purchasing my Surface Pro 2 in early November.  It seemed completely implausible that the track pad didn't support this most fundamental gesture, but sure enough, it didn't.

    I've contacted Microsoft Support about this issue three times now to see what I could learn and I get, of course, a different response from each support agent that I chat with.  Some say a fix is coming, some say that the Track Pad Settings app will enable it, but that software doesn't recognize that the Touch or Type Cover 2 is even connected.  Supposedly, an update to that software is coming, too, but I'm not going to be holding my breath waiting for it.

    I will continue to contact customer support every couple of weeks just to see what they say and would encourage all of you to get in touch with them about this issue as well.  The more they hear about it directly from us, the sooner we are likely to get some sort of resolution.  Writing about it here helps get it off of our chests, but when we're consuming actual support hours with the issue, it will generally get more attention.

    With this touch pad issue and the problems that I've been reading about some of the Surface updates lately, it seems like Microsoft continues on, as they have in the past, without much real regard for their actual users.  <Sigh>

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