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Developing KB Skills LO 2

The document discusses keyboard skills, including identifying different types of keys on a keyboard like function keys, cursor keys, alphanumeric keys and special keys. It also covers basic keyboarding techniques like touch typing and using home keys, as well as common keyboard shortcuts.

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Developing KB Skills LO 2

The document discusses keyboard skills, including identifying different types of keys on a keyboard like function keys, cursor keys, alphanumeric keys and special keys. It also covers basic keyboarding techniques like touch typing and using home keys, as well as common keyboard shortcuts.

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Harar Polytechnic College

ICT Department
UC: Developing Keyboard Skills
Unit Two: Identify and develop keyboard skills

Prepared By: Gosa.


Keyboarding is an input device that enables you to enter information to the computer and its layout is
viewed hereunder.
Some basic keyboarding skills that you are expected to know are:
 Word process, spreadsheets and or data entry
 Speed and accuracy
TYPES OF KEYS: Though there are several input devices viz. mouse, touch screen, character/
voice recognition etc.
Commonly, a computer has a keyboard that looks like a typewriter keyboard.
A computer keyboard contains the following types of keys:
 Function keys (F1 to F12) are special keys that are programmed to do specific things. For
example, if you tap the F1 key, the Help menu will appear.
 Cursor control keys. Use the cursor control keys on the keyboard to move your cursor (mouse
pointer) around a document.
 Use the four arrow keys to move one space or one line.
 Use the Page Up and Page Down keys to move one screen (rather than a page) up or down.
 CTRL and ALT keys. The Control and Alternate keys are always used in combination with other keys.
Holding down one or both of the keys, while tapping another key, can provide keyboard shortcuts – quick
ways of doing things using the keyboard.
For example: Ctrl+N brings up a new document.
 Alphanumeric keypad. Use the alphabet keys to type words. Although the tops of the keys show the
letters as capitals they will appear as lower case letters unless you use the shift or caps lock keys.
 The home keys are the alphabet keys that your fingers will use as a ‘base’. Each finger rests on its
home keys when not typing.
 Space bar. Tap this to put a space between words.
 Shift Keys. To capitalize letters you can use shift keys (left or right) for a single letter. For example
to capitalize letter F you should press right shift key with your right small finger and press F with
your left index finger at the same time.
 Caps Lock key. To capitalize a word or phrases at a time you can use shift lock/cap lock. To do this,
depress the shift lock key or cap lock key and leave it down until you have typed the combination to
be capitalized.
 Punctuation keys: The keys used for inserting various punctuation marks are period (full stop),
comma, semicolon, brackets, apostrophe, parenthesis etc. Also, it includes all of the mathematical
operators such as the plus sign, minus sign, and equal sign.
 Special keys: Understanding the keyboard also means learning the special functions of certain keys.
Commonly used special keys are explained as under:
 Ctrl Key: The full form of Ctrl is Control. This key is used in combination with other keys. For
example, Ctrl+S to save a document
 Alt Keys: The full form of Alt is Alternate. It is used like a control key. You depress Ctrl+Alt+Del
simultaneously when you want to get out of computer as the application on which you are working is
held up or muddled up
 Arrow Keys: There are normally four arrow keys to move the cursor - up, down, right or left. The
Arrow Keys can also be used in conjunction with the Shift or Alt keys.
 Enter Key: Also called Return Key. It is used to move the cursor to the beginning of the next line and give line
spaces.
 Backspace Key: This key deletes the character just left to the cursor position and hence moves the cursor to that
position.
 Delete (Del) Key: This key deletes the character to the right at the current cursor position or the selected
objects.
 Caps Lock: It is a toggle key that helps in typing many uppercase characters
 Esc Key: It means Escape which is used to exit (or escape) from programs and tasks and send special codes to
different devices.
Cursor and monitor controls
These are keys found between the typing keypad and the numeric keypad. It has two groups of keys,
arranged top and bottom.
The top keys holds Insert, Home, Page Up, Page Down, Delete, and End keys.
keyboard shortcuts
There are a lot of computer shortcuts keys that can make using a computer faster and easier

To do this Press
Cancel an action. ESC
Undo an action. CTRL+Z
Redo or repeat an action CTRL+Y
Print CTRL+P
Copy CTRL+C
Cut CTRL+X
Paste CTRL+V
Open new document CTRL+N
Indentation CTRL+M
Close opened windows Alt+F4
Make the text bold style CTRL+B
Make the text italic style CTRL+I
Underline text CTRL+U
Basic touch typing techniques
 Touch Typing Course or Mavis Beacon is a professional typing tutor that helps you "how to type" in
order to increase your typing speed and accuracy.
 Keyboarding functions should be easily identified in order to develop speed and accuracy in
accordance to the workplace requirements for the level of responsibilities
 Touch typing technique/skill can be developed by memorizing the keyboarding functions and the keys and
their corresponding fingers.
Home keys their corresponding fingers
A left small/little finger
S left ring finger
D left middle finger
F left index/pointer or forefinger
J right index/pointer or forefinger
K right middle finger
L right ring finger
; right small/little finger

 Groups or family letters of the home keys are the diagonal letters or letters nearer to the home keys
such as A families are Q, Z, 1
 Hence, memorization of home keys and their corresponding fingers enables you develop high speed and
greater accuracy in your performance at work.
Hence, in order to develop keyboarding skills, application software is required to install in the computer
which is Mavis Beacon.
What is Mavis?
Mavis is application software that enables you to develop keyboarding skills.

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