Although each mouse won't fit every hand equally well, a result of their unusually large designs, these mice are cleverly contoured and come bundled with a robust driver that provides a wide range of functions. Most important, each costs less than the Microsoft IntelliMouse. Perhaps the best feature of each is the driver and companion software. You can customize acceleration, centering, and the look and feel of pointers, and you can keep a mouse icon on your Taskbar that links directly to the driver.
Installation is a breeze, and the pop-up menus are simple to manipulate and easy to understand.
Like Microsoft's IntelliMouse, the scroller functionality allows you to glide through spreadsheets, Web browsers, word processors, e-mail, and other office applications, and it lets you zoom in and out of images if you're using Office 97. Unlike Microsoft's driver, MouseWare 7.5 also gives you zooming and scrolling capabilities in office suites from other vendors, such as Corel and Lotus. In addition to the two standard buttons common to all PC mice, it includes a wheel button for scrolling and zooming through office applications and Web browsers. It also has a customizable thumb button on the side, which comes preset as a substitute for the Ctrl key. All of the buttons are programmable to one of 50 possible uses, including double-click, copy, paste, Enter, and other common Windows functions.