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Keyboard Layout
this is the Windows Keyboard layout
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| QWERTY | the first six letters in the top keyboard row |
| Esc. | equivalent of the cancel button |
| F1 | brings up the help menu; if there is no open application it will open windows help |
| F2 | renames the selected item or object |
| F3 | displays the FIND: ALL FILES dialog box |
| F4 | selects the GO TO A DIFFERENT FOLDER box and moves down the entries in the box |
| F5 | refreshes the current window |
| F6 | moves among panes in Windows Explorer |
| F7 | return to keyboard |
| F8 | return to keyboard |
| F9 | return to keyboard |
| F10 | activates menu bar option |
| F11 | allows you to toggle between full screen viewing mode and normal viewing mode |
| F12 | return to keyboard |
| Print Screen/SysRq | pressing the print key screen causes the computer to send whatever images and text are currently on the display screen to the printer |
| Tab | this key can be used to move forward through options in a dialog box |
| Caps Lock | locks the keyboard in CAPITALS |
| Shift | allows section of capital letters when depressing the alphabet characters above other non-alpha keys |
| Ctrl | allows multiple sections |
| Ctrl A | select ALL items |
| Ctrl B | add or remove Bold formatting |
| Ctrl C | Copy, places the selected copy on the clipboard |
| Ctrl C+C | opens the clipboard |
| Ctrl F | opens the Find What dialog box |
| Ctrl H | also known as replace: it brings up the find and replace box |
| Ctrl I | add or remove Italic formatting |
| Ctrl N | opens a new window |
| Ctrl O | brings up a browse dialog and allows you to select a file to open |
| Ctrl P | |
| Ctrl S | Save |
| Ctrl U | add or remove underline formatting |
| Ctrl V | paste |
| Ctrl W | will close the document that is currently open |
| Ctrl X | will cut or remove the selected or copied item |
| Ctrl Y | redoes the last command |
| Ctrl Z | undo last command |
| Ctrl Esc. | open the start menu |
| Ctrl = | spell checker |
| Ctrl Shift | creates a shortcut |
| Ctrl Tab | allows movement from one open window to the next |
| Ctrl F4 | closes a window of an application without closing the application |
| Ctrl F5 | will refresh the webpage |
| Windows | displays the Start Menu |
| Windows D | minimizes all windows and shows the desktop |
| Windows D | opens all windows and takes you right back to where you were |
| Windows E | opens a new explorer window |
| Windows F | Find all dialog box |
| Windows L | Locks your windows computer |
| Windows M | Minimizes all open windows |
| Windows Shift M | restores all previously open windows to how they were before you minimized them |
| Windows R | Displays the Run command |
| Windows F1 | Displays the Windows Help option |
| Windows Pause/Break | Systems Properties |
| Windows Tab | cycle through the buttons on the task bar |
| Alt | Located on either side of the space bar |
| Alt F4 | closes the currently active window |
| Alt Underlined letter in menu | to carry out the corresponding menu |
| Alt Left/Right arrows | moves back or forth through pages visited in a window |
| Alt Space Bar | displays the current windows system menu |
| Alt Enter | displays selected items properties |
| Alt PrtScn | captures the top window of the active application |
| Alt Space Bar C | closes a window |
| Alt - | displays the current windows systems menu |
| Alt Tab | displays a list of open application windows |
| Alt Ctrl | displays shortcut window |
| Space Bar | inserts space between words |
| Enter | creates a new paragraph |
| Shift Enter | creates a new Line Break |
| Shift Arrow | highlights |
| Backspace | deletes characters |
| Insert | return to keyboard |
| Home | goes to the first line of a document |
| Page up | moves up one full screen |
| delete | deletes character to the right of the insertions point |
| End | depress and hold the Ctrl as you select End to go to the last line of a document |
| Page Down | moves one full screen down |
| Up arrow | goes to the line above |
| Right arrow | goes to the right |
| Down arrow | goes to the line below |
| Left arrow | goes to the left |
| Num Lock | unlocks the numeric keyboard on the left or right of the keyboard |
| * | expands everything under the current selection |
| - | collapses the current selection |
| + | expands the current selection |
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