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Keyboarding

Keyboarding involves typing information into a computer or word processor using keys on a keyboard. A keyboard contains letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and special keys like arrow keys, function keys, control keys, shift keys, tab keys, and more. Keyboard shortcuts allow users to perform actions more quickly by pressing key combinations like Ctrl+C to copy or Alt+F4 to close a program window.

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Keyboarding

Keyboarding involves typing information into a computer or word processor using keys on a keyboard. A keyboard contains letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and special keys like arrow keys, function keys, control keys, shift keys, tab keys, and more. Keyboard shortcuts allow users to perform actions more quickly by pressing key combinations like Ctrl+C to copy or Alt+F4 to close a program window.

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KEYBOARDING

Keyboarding is the activity of typing


information into a computer or word
processor.
KEYBOARD KEYS
• Alt Key
A computer key that you press together with another key so
that the other key does something different from what it
usually does. You can also refer to this key simply as Alt.
• Arrow Key
One of four computer keys marked with an up, down, left, or
right arrow, used for moving the cursor.
• Backspace
The key that you press on a keyboard to move one space
backwards in a document.
• Caps Lock
A key on a computer keyboard that makes all the keys
produce capital letters.
• Character Set
A complete set of letters, numbers, or symbols that can be
used by a computer.
• Command Key
On some computers, a key that you press together with
another key to make the computer do a particular thing.
• Control
The control key on a computer keyboard.
• Control Key
A key on a computer keyboard that is used in combination
with other keys for doing particular operations. This key is
usually marked ‘Ctrl’.
ctrl abbreviation control: the control key on a computer
keyboard.
• Delete Key
A computer key that removes characters. This key is
sometimes simply referred to as del.
• Enter Key
A key on a computer keyboard that makes the computer
perform an action or start a new line of writing.
• Escape
The escape key on a computer.
• Escape Key
A key on a computer keyboard that allows someone to stop
an action, leave a program, or return to a previous menu.
This key is usually marked ‘Esc’.
• Function Key
A special button on a computer keyboard that is used for a
particular operation in a program. The keys near the top of
a keyboard marked ‘F1’ to ‘F12’ are function keys.
• Hot Key
A key on a computer keyboard that provides a short way of
performing a set of actions
• Key
One of the parts that you press on a keyboard to make it
produce letters, numbers etc.
• Keypad
The part at the side of a computer keyboard that has
number keys and arrow keys on it.
• Numeric Keypad
The part of a computer keyboard to the right of the main
keys that has keys with numbers on them.
• Num Lock
A computer key that you press to make the number keys
below it enter numbers and not be used for moving up and
down a document.
• Pound Key
American the hash key on a telephone keypad or computer
keyboard.
• Return key
A key on a computer keyboard that makes the computer
perform an action or start a new line of writing.
• Shift
Computing a shift key on a computer keyboard.
• Shift Key
The key that you press on a computer keyboard when you
want to write a capital letter.
• Short Cut
Computing a computer icon or a combination of keys on the
keyboard such as ‘Alt + C’ that helps you to do something
on the computer more quickly, for example go to a particular
program or copy information.
• Space Bar
The long narrow bar at the front of a computer keyboard
that you press to make a space between words when you
are typing.
• Star key
The key with the asterisk symbol (*) on a telephone keypad
or computer keyboard.
• Tab
Computing a button on a computer keyboard or typewriter
that you press to move several spaces along the same line.
• Tab key
A tab on a computer keyboard.
• Toggle
Computing a key or command (=instruction) on a computer
that you use to move from one operation or program to
another and back again.
• Touchpad
Computing a small flat surface on a laptop computer that
you touch with your finger in order to move the cursor on
the screen.
BASIC KEYBOAD SHORTCUTS

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