When in doubt, right-click. I finally got it one day when, for the umpty-umpth time, I screamed at my screen and cursed at my computer. I actually wrote When in doubt, right-click on a Post-It and stuck it to the monitor.
It’s a good rule. Before you start thinking the programmer was a total idiot, the CPU is having a meltdown, or the stars are misaligned and you might as well stop working and go float around in the pool with a rum and coke balanced on your mouse-potato tummy…. right-click.
Aha! There the little bugger is: just the menu choice you were clicking the left mouse button for, over and over, swearing it had to be there. All you had to do was…right-click.
Life lesson learned: take a different approach. Try a different path to your destination. And sometimes thinking outside the box works before you have to resort to A; throwing the whole problem out the window in disgust or B; dousing yourself with rum and cokes. When in doubt, right-click.
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 