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UNIT                                                Data Entry and

             2                                            Keyboarding Skills









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                 Computer Keyboard—An Introduction                 Types of Keyboard Layouts
                 Categories of Keys on the Keyboard                Important Keys and their Functions
                 Some Important Keys                               Typing a Text, Sentence or a Paragraph
                 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 Analyzing Statistics
                 Working with Lesson Editor                        Calculating Typing Speed
                 Typing Accuracy                                   Typing Rhythm



        Today, computers are used everywhere for all kinds of jobs. We can use it for designing software, 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, generating report cards in schools and for many other day-to-day tasks. All such sort of tasks
        can be done much more efficiently by learning just a few simple keyboard commands which allow us to operate faster
        on the computer system. Thus, in this chapter, we will be learning such keyboard skills and their use in data entry.

        Data entry is the process of entering data or information into a computer using input devices such as a keyboard.



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                COMPUTER KEYBOARD 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. It also comes as a
        wireless device attached through bluetooth technology as in laptops or tabs.

        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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