eventually cause
problems. To clean it, turn your keyboard over and lay it on a piece of paper. Lift
the keyboard a little way off the paper, shake it and tap it several times.
When you think that all the debris has fallen out, stand the key board
upright on the paper and brush between the keys to remove any remaining
dirt. I use a clean pastry brush kept specially for this purpose. To reduce
the accumulation of dust, cover the keyboard when not in use, or
alternatively, always turn the keyboard over after you close down the
computer.The Caps Lock key: When you accidentally touch the Caps lock key, the result is dEAR sIR instead of Dear Sir. I removed the Caps lock key from my keyboard. Try this less drastic solution in MS Word, if you have typed a row of capitals by mistake: Select (i.e. highlight) the faulty text, then hold down the Shift key and tap the key labelled F3. Repeat Shift + F3 several times and watch the text cycle through various formats.
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This is the Shift key used in many of my tips for functions other
than just creating capital letters. Note there are two shift keys.
The top key here is the
Left delete key for deleting to the left.
This L shaped key is the Enter key, used to confirm entries as well as for
moving down one row, or putting a space between two lines
of text. It is the equivalent of the carriage return key on a typewriter.
These are the Arrow keys, use these to move around your text without
deleting anything.
The Del (Delete) key deletes letters or spaces to the
right. This key is also used to delete words, lines of text, emails, pictures, or
whole paragraphs. Select what you wish to delete then
press the delete key.
The Home key moves your cursor to the start of a line.
The End
key moves your cursor to the end of a line
The Tab key is used to line up columns. Press the
Tab key to move
to the right 8 spaces at a time. Press Shift and Tab to move to the
left 8 spaces. Never use the space bar to line up columns of text, it
just doesn't work.
Space Bar: this is the very wide key nearest to you. Never use key this to line up columns, use the tab key.
Basic Exercise. Type a block of text and practise on it using all these important keys until you are completely familiar with their usage.