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2 Keyboarding Skills
Topics Covered 95%
Computer Keyboard Skills—An Introduction Types of Keyboard Layouts
Categories of Keys on the Keyboard Keys and their Functions
Some Important Keys Typing a Text, Sentence or a Paragraph
Typing a Capital letters, Symbols or Guide for Typing Deleting a Text
Typing Ergonomics Touch Typing—An Introduction
Positioning of Fingers on the Keyboard Pointing Devices
Rapid Typing Tutor Select a Course
Begin a Lesson How to Interpret Your Results
Viewing and Analysing Statistics Working with Lesson Editor
Calculating Typing Speed Typing Accuracy
Typing Rhythm
Computers are used everywhere for all kinds of jobs. We can use it to design softwares, storing data in a database,
browsing the internet, listening to music, accessing the patient's information in a hospital, designing new tools using
3D software or generating a report card in school. Learning just a few simple keyboard commands can help you work
more efficiently in different categories of software. This chapter deals in details learning the keyboard skills and its use
in data entry.
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COMPUTER KEYBOARD SKILLS AN INTRODUCTION
The computer keyboard is a standard input device. It is similar to an electronic typewriter with some additional keys.
The keyboard has different sets of keys to input alphabets, numbers, special characters, symbols and punctuations.
There are also some function keys which are used to perform specialised functions in different software. The keyboard
comes as a separate peripheral device on a personal computer, attached through a wired cable or wireless (Bluetooth
technology). In a laptop, it comes as an embedded part of a system.
To make the graphical user interface more efficient and enhanced, there are other supporting input devices like
joysticks, scanners, touchpads, etc.
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