Keyboarding 101

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Keyboarding 101
By Angie Harris
Adapted from the Texas State Library’s TEAL for All Texans Student Resources Manual
Topics
• Getting to Know Your Keyboard

• Keyboarding Essentials
Goals and Objectives
• Learn what keyboarding is and why it’s a
valuable skill
• Define and understand a keyboard interface
• Acquire the essentials to learning or improving
your keyboarding skills
Getting to Know your Keyboard
What is keyboarding?
• It's the widely accepted standard on correct
finger placement when typing with a set of 8 keys
designated as the home row. Learning to
keyboard ultimately allows you to type without
looking at the keyboard, without making as many
errors, and increase your typing speed.
• Keyboarding is a hard skill to learn and takes time
to develop correctly. However, patience and
practice are all you need to accomplish picking it
up.
Keyboarding vs. Typing
Keyboarding Typing
• Home Key Oriented • Muscle Memory Oriented
• For many, learning to • Most people are familiar
keyboard can be awkward with typing. It’s any use of
and somewhat difficult the keyboard that is not
home key oriented.
because we are not used to Sometimes you can become
holding our hands in a static a fast typist to the point
position on the home keys. where it’s ok not to learn
However over time it keyboarding but your typing
improves your typing ability. ability typically stays static
over time.
Keyboard Keys 1
 Esc Key (Escape)– exit or cancel operations  Alt (Alternate) – a modifier key that
 Tab – used to indent paragraphs or move from one performs a special operation when pressed
text field to another in conjunction with another key or keys
 Caps Lock – makes all letters capital until you turn it  Space Bar – adds one blank space between
off objects
 Shift - allows you to capitalize letters when pressed  Right Click Key– allows you to access
down and allows you to access the secondary function
of your computer keys contextual menu options based on where
 Ctrl (Control) –a modifier key that performs a special your mouse is on the screen
operation when pressed in conjunction with another  Enter – starts a new line or begins a
key or keys process
 Windows Key – open and close your windows start  Backspace – erases the object to the left of
menu the cursor
Keyboard Keys 2
 Insert – allows you to replace a word with another  Num Lock (Number lock) – enables and disables
by writing over it the numeric keypad. Turn the Num Lock on to
 Home – moves your cursor to the front of your line use the numbers on the keypad, turn it off to
of text use the keys other functions
 Page Up/Page Down – scrolls the page up or down  Print Screen/Sys Rq – copies the current screen
 Delete – erases the object to the right of the cursor to the clipboard to paste or sends the current
screen to the printer
 End – moves your cursor to the end of your line of  Scroll Lock – temporarily stops the scrolling of
text text. Use is mostly restricted to Microsoft Excel
 Numeric Keypad – a number pad typically found on  Pause/Break – allows a user to pause and un-
the far right of a keyboard pause an action such as a computer game or
scrolling text
Keyboard F Keys
 F Keys are known as Function Keys and may have a variety of F7 – opens up spell check in Microsoft Office programs
different uses or no use at all depending on the OS and the
open program. They can be combined with modifier keys as F8 – enters the Windows startup menu when computer is
well. booting up
F1 – almost always opens a help screen in a program F9 – refreshes a document in Word and sends email in
F2 – allows you to rename a highlighted file, icon, or folder Outlook
F3 – often opens up a search feature F10 – activates the menu bar in an open program. Can also
F4 – opens the address bar in Windows and Internet Explorer. operate as the right click when combined with the Shift
Closes the currently active program when combined with the
Alt key key
F5 – refreshes a website or webpage F11 – activates full screen mode in all web browsers
F6 – moves the cursor to the address bar in most web browsers F12 – opens the save as window in Microsoft Office programs
Keyboarding Essentials
The Home Keys
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Review
• What two attributes do you need to get good
at keyboarding?
• What’s the difference between keyboarding
and typing?
• Which two keys are modifier keys?
• What does F1 almost always do?
• What letters do the Home keys consist of?
Online Instruction
• www.typingweb.com/tutor
• Create a free account
• Take typing test
• Complete the Beginner Course

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