APPENDIX D: Windows 8.1 Touch Gestures

IN THIS APPENDIX

Getting acquainted with the touch interface

Exploring Windows 8.1 touch gestures

The Windows 8.1 touch interface is designed to be used on different platforms with different inputs. Users on regular laptops or desktop computers can use keyboard and mouse movements to select, deselect, or move items, resize windows, and perform other tasks. With Windows-based tablets, however, you can use Windows 8.1 touch interface gestures. These are hand gestures you can use instead of relying on simple clicks or requiring that a mouse device performs Windows tasks.

Table D.1 lists touch gestures and a description of those gestures. Keep in mind that other gestures may be available based on a particular Windows 8 app that you're running. Also, not all these gestures are available with every app. It's up to the app developer to program them into their app.

Tip

Semantic Zoom is used in Microsoft Windows 8.1 apps to allow users to navigate large amounts of data presented in a single view. For example, users can view full-size maps by pinching and zooming into a region on the map or a small location on the map. Conversely, the user can zoom out from a point on a map to a larger view.

Table D-1 Windows 8.1 Touch Interface Gestures

This Action

Does This

Slide your finger left or right.

Scrolls through the screens.

Tap once.

Starts an app.

Swipe from the right side of the screen toward the middle.

Displays the Charms Bar, which includes the Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings charms. This action also displays a window that shows connection information, battery information (if using a mobile device), the time, and the date.

Swipe from the left side of the screen toward the middle.

Launches the last app that was launched.

Swipe down.

Displays additional menus.

Press and hold down on an item and then move it.

Enables you to move an item onscreen.

Tap and hold.

Shows the name of the element or the type of action you can perform with it.

Swipe down on an item.

Selects the item.

Swipe down past an item.

Allows movement of the item so you can move it from its current placement on the screen.

Slide an item from left or right.

Enables you to drag the item across the screen.

Place two or more fingers on an item and rotate your fingers.

Rotates an object.

Pinch inward with two or more fingers.

Zooms in on an item that uses Semantic Zoom, such as an object on an interactive map.

Pinch outward with two or move fingers.

Zooms out from an item that uses Semantic Zoom, such as zooming out on a photo or picture.

Swipe from left edge, hold, release.

Snaps an app on the left side of the screen so that it stays onscreen with another window to the right of it. You must have your screen set to at least 1366 x 768 resolution.

Swipe from left to right or right to left in Internet Explorer.

Enables you to navigate from page to page while web browsing.

Press and hold down on an app, and then drag to the bottom of the screen.

Closes the app.

From the left side of the screen, swipe to the right, hold, and then swipe to the left.

Shows currently running apps.

Swipe from the left and release.

Switches the active app.
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