HELP W/Wireless Mouse

I would like to calibrate my mouse ? To go from one corner to the other I have to lift the mouse several times. Does a MAC mouse have such a thing, like in Windows ?
and I would like to change from a double click to a single click for opening programs or going backwards.
Thanks in advance for the help ! Nancy

Thanks for the response. I tried via Mouse Preferences but all I could do from that window is change the tracking to "fast". That particular window didn't show an option to calibrate a windows so you don't have to run all over the desktop to get from point a to b. In windows you could calibrate so
could stick to your mousepad.
I'm finding a lot of things different from my Win XP system.

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