Learn about keyboard and important keys

1. KEYBOARD and
IMPORTANT KEYS

2. KEYBOARD
 The keyboard is the device containing all
the buttons or keys with letters, numbers
and other symbols on them.
 This is one of the main mechanisms you
will use to enter information into the
computer.

3. The Enter Key (also called
'return')
 This is one of the most important keys.
You will press this after you have finished
typing in a piece of information to tell the
computer that it must go ahead and
process that information.

4. The Shift Key
 This key usually gives another key a
different meaning.
 if you press 'Shift' and then a letter key at the
same time, you will type a capital letter
instead of a lower-case letter.
If you use it at the same time as a number
key, you will type the symbol you see on the
keyboard above the numbers.
The same goes for the punctuation and other
keys with two symbols on them.

5. The Caps Lock key
 Press the 'Caps Lock' key on the left of
your keyboard once and everything you
type after that will be in capital letters.
Press it again and you will be typing in
lower-case letters again.

6. The Numeric Lock
Key
 With the numeric lock function switched
on, you will type numbers when you use
the keypad.

7. The Tab Key
 The 'tab' key moves the cursor to the next
significant place.
The tab key will move the cursor to the next
field
 If pressed together with 'shift', will move it to
the previous field.
In a word processor it will create a space
larger than if you hit the spacebar.

8. The Backspace Key
 This key is used for deleting text. Press it
once and the cursor will move one space
backwards, deleting the previous letter.

9. The Arrow Keys
 These four keys are used for moving the
cursor around on a page. The arrow on
each key indicates the direction in which
the cursor will move.

10. The Delete Key
 The 'delete' key is used in a number of ways.
 In a word processor, it will delete the letter in front of
the cursor or the sections that are highlighted.
 In Windows Explorer (explained later) it will delete
whatever files are selected by sending them to the
Recycle Bin.
 Selecting an icon and hitting 'delete' will send it to the
Recycle Bin.

11. The Home and End Keys
 These are most commonly used in word
processors.
 'Home' will take you to the beginning of the
line in which you are typing.
 'End' will take you to the end of that line.

12. The Page up and
Page down Keys
 The 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keys
show the next section in the window in
which you are working. You can use these
instead of scrolling.