KEYBOARDING LECTURE NOTES Summer
KEYBOARDING LECTURE NOTES Summer
What is KEYBOARDING?
A keyboard is one of the primary input devices used with a computer.
Similar to an electric typewriter, a keyboard is composed of buttons used to
create letters, numbers, and symbols, and perform additional functions.
Importance of Keyboarding
1. speed: it enable the user of the computer or typewriter to do a lot of work
faster than when he applies sight system
2. Accuracy: Learning to use the appropriate singer to manipulate a specific
key reduces errors in typing as well as the wrong stress
3. Efficiency: speed and accuracy bring about efficiency of work
4. Easy production of work: a good knowledge of touch system enable the
operator to produce whatever work he does in computer or typewriter
5. Sense of Happiness and Encouragement: the achievement of speed,
accuracy, and efficiency give joy and encourages one to strive to greater
height in the course of keyboarding
6. Career Opportunity: it will make a job seeker more marketable as most
jobs in society requires some degree of computer work
7. Personal use: individuals’ own computer nowadays. A good knowledge
of keyboarding will enable one work on One’s Personal computers
Proper Sitting Posture for Keyboarding
1. Correct sitting posture for keyboarding
2. Incorrect sitting posture for keyboarding.
Left Hand Side: the left-hand side of the keyboard is operated with the left
fingers.
For the left hand fingers
1. The finger that types A also type Z
and Q
2. The finger that types S also type X
and W
3. The finger that types D also types
C and E
4. The finger that types F also type
R,T,G and V
IBM/PC keyboards
(IBM, in full International Business Machines Corporation, leading American
computer manufacturer, with a major share of the market both in the United
States and abroad. Its headquarters are in Armonk, New York.)
● Original IBM PC Keyboard (1981) - 83 keys
● Updated IBM PC Keyboard (1984) - 84 keys
● AT Keyboard - 84 keys
● AT Enhanced Keyboard - 101 keys
● US Traditional Keyboard - 101 keys
● Enhanced European Keyboard - 102 keys
● Windows Keyboard - 104 keys
● Windows-based Laptop Keyboard - 86 keys
● Windows-based multimedia Keyboard - varies by how many special
keys are present
Apple keyboards
● Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad - 109 keys
● Apple Wireless Keyboard - 78 keys
● Apple MacBook Air laptop - 78 keys
How many function keys are on a keyboard?
Today's traditional PC keyboards have 12 function keys, F1 through F12. Some
specialized PC keyboards have 24 function keys, F1 through F24.
Many Apple desktop computer keyboards with a number pad have 19 function
keys, F1 through F19.
● What are the F1 trough F 12 keys?
● How many keys are on the numeric keypad?
● Most desktop computer keyboards have one numeric keypad with 17
keys on the PC and 18 keys on Apple keyboards.
Some laptop keyboards include a numeric keypad, while others do not. Most
laptops with a 15-inch or larger screen size have a numeric keypad. Laptops
with smaller screen sizes usually do not have a numeric keypad.
Note
Some computers may have an external USB (universal serial bus) numeric
keypad device attached to the computer. An external USB numeric keypad can
have any number of keys.
Note
When talking about a keypad on a phone or security keypad, this keypad has
12 buttons. The numbers zero through nine, with keys for the asterisk (*) and
pound (#).
How many number keys are on a keyboard?
If you only count the top row of number keys on a keyboard, numbers 1
through 0, there are ten number keys on the keyboard.
If the keyboard also has a numeric keypad (1 through 0), there are twenty
number keys on the keyboard.
How many alphabetic keys are on a keyboard?
On an English computer keyboard, there are the same number of alphabetic
keys as there are in the English alphabet; 26 keys for the 26 letters.
FUNCTION KEYS
Is a key on a computer or terminal keyboard which can be programmed so as
to cause an operating system command interpreter or application program to
perform certain actions, a form of soft key.
USING KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
Keyboard shortcuts
Are keys or combinations of keys that provide an alternative way to do
something that you'd typically do with a mouse?