For years, I never used the extra buttons on the side of my mouse, and mostly just viewed them as a nuisance. Too often I’d click them by accident and trigger some unwanted action, like navigating ...

I don't think there's a way to in Illustrator. You may be able to find a 3rd party program that will customize button functionality on a per-application basis. Then map the middle button to ...

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