Working with no keyboard

I have a new tablet PC notebook, when it's folded into the slate orientation the keyboard is completely inaccessible. While I've found that most tasks I do can be accomplished with just the pen (mouse), I haven't found any alternative to alt-clicking with the clone-stamp or healing brush tool. Is there a mouse-only alternative, or do I have to unfold and reorient my whole computer just to get to the alt key?
I can access left-click by tapping on the screen and right-click with the pen button. So far, only alt-click I've found is problematic so I need an alternative. I'm using CS5.

You could remap some of the mouse buttons to act as modifier keys, that is if your mouse software allows it and you have the buttons to spare.

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Hello
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