>>SNIP
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>>>If you can, order OPTICAL mice... They work great and don't clog up every few weeks.
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>>I agree with the optical mouse but add that it should be the variety that has Back/Forward side buttons. I couldn't live without those buttons - mainly the Back button of course.
>>They not only reduce useless mousing significantly, but the accumulated time saved by eliminating all those to-fro's of the Back button adds up fast.
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>>JimN
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>and don't forget scroll wheel!! ;-)
>BTW, you can do Back and Forward by holding Shift while scrolling Down and Up, at least in IE. I usually have a hand on teh keyboard anyway.. You can tell how much you depend on scroll wheel if you have one, and then try using a mouse without one .. I instinctively reached for the wheel only to find it missing.. Did this almost the whole time I was working with that mouse :-)

For sure! I assumed that all optical mice had one, but should have mentioned it.