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this is the Windows Keyboard layout

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