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Get your computer going. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

You’re looking at the old-fashioned Windows desktop, right? (If you have a mouse and Windows sensed it, you’re looking at the desktop. If your machine is only touch, you may be in tablet mode already.)

Time to take a walk on the wild side. Let’s flip over to tablet mode. Way down in the lower-right corner, to the right of the date and time, click the Action/Notification Area icon. (Microsoft calls it an Action Area, but every other computer on the planet calls it a Notification area.) At the bottom, in the upper-left of the hive of shortcut icons, click Tablet Mode.

This (see Figure 1-2) is where the finger pickers live. They can tap and swipe and pinch and nudge to their heart’s content.

FIGURE 1-2: Tablet mode, a good place for touch-first types.

Wait. Don’t panic.

To get back to normal (I call it desktop mode), click or tap the Action/Notification Area icon in the lower-right corner, and click Tablet Mode once again. Like Dorothy tapping her heels together three times, you go back to where there’s no place like Home.

That brings you back to Figure 1-1. Which is probably where you wanted to be.

Although tablet mode is designed for people who want to use a touchscreen, not a mouse, there’s no law that says you’re stuck in one persona or the other. You can flip back and forth between regular mouse-first mode and tablet mode any time.