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Barbara Blackburn is the fastest typist on record, at 150 words per minute for 50 minutes.

Press ctrl, alt and any of the arrow keys at the same time to rotate the screen. If an arrow doesn't work, try a different one.

A Staff Report from the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board

= What's the "Scroll Lock" key on my computer for? = October 7, 2003 Dear Straight Dope: Why does my computer keyboard have this "Scroll Lock" key that seems to serve no purpose whatsoever? In 15 years I don't remember ever pushing that button. I'm almost scared to touch it - Insanegrey, Lawrence, KS Although your mother told you that there are many things to avoid touching (like downed electric lines, scorpions, and the "naughty place"), don't be afraid to touch the Scroll Lock key. Nothing bad will happen - in fact, probably nothing at all will happen. Once upon a time, however, something did. The Scroll Lock key has appeared on the keyboards of IBM personal computers since the original 83-key PC/XT and the 84-key AT layouts, and remains on the 101-key and greater "enhanced" keyboards currently in use. The Scroll Lock key wasn't on the original Macintosh keyboards but appears on the Mac's "enhanced" keyboard. The main intent of the Scroll Lock key was to allow scrolling of screen text up, down and presumably sideways using the arrow keys in the days before large displays and graphical scroll bars. You can see where this might have been handy in the DOS era, when screen output typically was limited to 80 characters wide by 25 rows deep. For some types of programs, spreadsheets being the obvious example, it's still handy now. In Microsoft Excel, Scroll Lock allows you to scroll a spreadsheet with the arrow keys without moving the active cell pointer from the currently highlighted cell. In Quattro Pro, another spreadsheet program, Scroll Lock works in a similar manner, although in contrast to Excel it's not possible to scroll the active cell pointer completely off the screen. Other programs use Scroll Lock for special functions. It's said (although I haven't personally verified this) that the Linux operating system as well as some early mainframe and minicomputer terminals employed Scroll Lock to stop text from scrolling on your screen in command-line sessions - pausing the scrolling, in effect. The ancient DOS adventure game "Rogue" (one of my all-time favorites) used Scroll Lock to scroll your character's movement through the ASCII dungeons on the display. I'm told some computers in the late 1980s used the Scroll Lock key to halt the scrolling of the boot-up messages that appeared when you started the computer. This last use may be apocryphal, as I could find no examples of computers that displayed this behavior. The point is, Scroll Lock sometimes does something besides make that little light light up.

Most likely the author of the post removed it. if it is one of your own....i have no flippin' idea, sorry!

Whenever you push a key on a keyboard, you enter a keystroke.

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you can make animals with your keyboard by using symbols, letters, or numbers as shapes.

use your imagination. :D

The camera doesn't have any built-in support on mac OS X, but the Macam driver project supports it. Note that you will also need other software to be able to use it in iChat.

Yes, by pressing the Caps Lock key a second time it will unlock.

The best way to increase your texting speed is to practice. Use your notebook feature to practice "typing" on your cellphone until you can get faster.

There is not a code for this character. You will have to go to Character Map by clicking start > all programs > accessories > system tools > character map. Selct your font and check the advanced view box. Under "Search For" type star and push enter. Any matches will be displayed for the font you selected. Double-click the star you want and it will appear in the "characters to copy" box. Click the copy button and paste the character where you want.

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In Microsoft Word, it is 1 page.

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For Microsoft users:

In café, the accent goes over the e. It's not possible to add an accent to an e after you've typed it. The solution is that you can insert an "é" using the symbol function.

If you see a button on your toolbar that looks like a horseshoe, that's the button you use for inserting symbols. Press that button and it will give you a screen of special characters and symbols that you can select from. Find that special é and select it. Then click on "insert" and exit out of the screen.

If a horseshoe is nowhere in your toolbars, you most likely will be able to use the insert function. Select insert, then select symbol. The same screen as you would see above comes up and you can select a symbol (or scroll down until you see what you're looking for) and then select it, "insert", and exit out.

If you're working in new versions of Word, use the following keyboard commands:

Alt + n. Let up and then press "u". A small window will show up with commonly used symbols. If you don't see what you want there, click on More Symbols and you'll get a vast amount of symbols and special characters to choose from. You can insert whatever you need, one at a time.

To do a backslash on MicroSoft word 2007 you press the key that's right under the backspace key.

Correct posture. Supportive chair. Monitor , keyboard and mouse at the optimum heights and finally regular breaks and stretching.

This is only general . The best way to really stop or alleviate back problems is to strengthen your core (stomach) muscles

It could be disabled by some program which made changes in your registry.

What you need to do it is run a complete anti virus scan and if your computer is virus free do a system restore to the data your control key was working

F is the left home key on the home row and N is on the bottom row right above the space key.

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1MB is equal to 1000KB.

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Because they said things they made people not want to give them thumbs up.

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An alphanumeric is any of the characters of an alphabetical or numeric set, in Roman script these are the letters A to Z and the numbers 0 to 9.