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You can programmatically swap the meaning of the left and right mouse buttons, to account for your left-handed users. All you need is a call to the SystemParameterInfo API function Click here to copy the following block Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32" Alias _   "SystemParametersInfoA" (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal uParam As Long, _   ByRef lpvParam As Any, ByVal fuWinIni As Long) As Long Private Const SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP = 33 ' swap the two mouse buttons SystemParametersInfo SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP, True, ByVal 0&, 0 To restore the regular mouse behavior, you need a second call to the same API function, but passing False in its second argument: Click here to copy the following block ' restore regular mouse buttons behavior SystemParametersInfo SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP, False, ByVal 0&, 0

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