Got water on my Macbook Pro's trackpad, do I need to turn it off for it to dry?

I know that there're tons of topics on this, I read everything but still I'm not sure what to do..
About 24hs ago I spilled a tiny bit of water on my trackpad while using it with wet hands (without noticing) and now the cursor's acting unresponsive, jumping around arbitrarily on the screen and clicking stuff by itself. I shut it down for about 12hs before using it again, the trackpad worked fine for about 2min and then started acting all funny again. I read on other forums that usually the it starts working again once it dried, but my question is if for it to dry I need to keep the Macbook shut down or can I keep using it with an external mouse? I really need it for work and I don't have another computer. Thank you very much!

I would definetly not use it....shut it down. Hopefully you haven't fried it.
If you have a removable battery, take it out and leave the back of your Mac open. I would then flatten out the screen and keyboard and turn it upside down, keyboard and trackpad on a towel. I would even put a fan blowing on it. Then every other day flip it over and blow the fan on the other side. I would not power it back on for at least a week and a half....maybe two.
It takes forever to dry out a MacBookPro. If you can let it dry longer then 2 weeks.

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