Keyboarding

On a computer keyboard, this is why they are called 'qwerty' keyboards

It depends on whether you have had typing class and learned how to type quickly. The average person types between 38 and 40 words per minute -- between 190 and 200 characters per minute. However, professional typists type a lot faster on average -- upwards of 65 to 75 WPM.

The longest word you can type using only the top row of keys is typewriter

The Function keys have various functions and in conjunction with keys like the Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys. There are too many to list here, but you will find them in the help system in each application. They will be under shortcut keys.

Here is another amusing question that does have a rational answer. Keyboarding has 2 references nowadays; the first being typing with an alpha-numeric keyboard or typewriter, and the second of playing a piano, organ, or electronic "keyboard". Believe it or not, the musical keyboarding came around first, and the "keys" are similar in operation on most instruments from trumpets and trombones, to holes on flutes, and even peg-type keys on Accordions. The keys on a piano (from left to right) represent notes and octives from low to high, and correspond to the notes in the musical scale from A to G. The other keyboarding (typing) started in form with the invention of the Printing Press in the 1600's. Manual typewriters came some time later (with the keyboard layout of letters that we are accustomed to now). Additionally, there was another simple form of mono-keyboarding in electronic for with the advent of the telegraph (developed by Samuel Morse ... Morse Code...) wherein a series of dots and dashes created letters, which spelled out words, which then composed a "telegram" to someone. There is another niche of keyboarding, which involves a courtroom recorder using a stenography machine. This machine has less characters than a standard keyboard, and involves a system of shorthand in conjunction with fewer keys. A good example of shorthand is the use of abbreviations, such as Mfr stands for manufacturer.

As with many things on computers, there is more than one way.

If you select Insert, then one of the options is "Symbol"; you will find accented characters on the dialog that appears.

A quicker way is to type Ctrl+<accent> followed by the letter.

For example, typing Ctrl+' followed by e produces é.

It depends on what software program you're writing.

The main function of a keyboard is to input data to the computer.

All of the function keys (F1, F2, F3, F4 and so on) don't really stand for anything, F1 just means "function key 1."

However when you press the F1 key on a windows operating system it will usually pull up Help for the operating system or for the program that you are using.

If you're interested in learning more about function keys you can look at the Wikipedia link below

In Microsoft products it is the 'Select All' command. Used to select all text on a document, all cells in a spreadsheet or table, all records in a database, all files in a directory etc.

Alt-Control-Shift-?

or under the insert tab, click on symbol, more symbols, scroll until you locate the upside down question mark.

"Kid's Typing" is the name of it. Spooky was the ghost's name.

Press NUM LOCK, then hold down alt, while holding down alt on the number keyboard to the right (under num lock) press 3 once. It should come out like this: ♥ . Others are

♫ ( press numlock, hold down alt, and press 2 six times)

☻( same except press 2 once)

♣ (same ecept press 3 four times)

Or you could use <3, as the above method doesn't work for some people.

The recommended placement of one's fingers on the home row start with both pointer fingers on "f" and "j" and proceeding in either direction with the following fingers: "f-d-s-a" and "j-k-l-;"

As Mac OS X is a true windowing system where the window allows you to interact with the running application you can select a window which will bring the appropriate application to the fore - note the change in the menu bar at the top. If you have closed a window because you no longer need to interact with the application, for example while listening to music with iTunes, you can click on the applications icon in the Dock to open a window for that application.

Pressing the Command (cmd) key and Tab key will open an application switcher pane across the screen from which you can select, with the mouse or the arrow keys, a running application to work with.

if you have several applications/windows open then Exposé (usually found by pressing the F9 key) will create small images of each window which allows you to select which one you want to work with. Exposé settings can be configured in the 'Exposé & Spaces' section of System Preferences.

Yes, a page break in Microsoft Word, for instance, is one that you put in manually (between paragraphs), in order to choose where the page breaks, rather than the place where it breaks naturally as controlled by the software. This allows you to keep ideas together. You can also put in section and column breaks that allow you to change the layout of part of a page without making a new page.

You press it again.

The default preset view of Word is Print Layout view.

Copy initiates a store string command and a write command once you hit "Paste"

Basically, Copy creates an identical duplicate of whatever you copied, be it a few words, or an entire hard drive.

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simple you have a touch screen :D

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You can also improve your typing skills using TypingMaster. It's a software and it's free. It has lots of default test texts you can practice with and it also features four games. If you want to know more about it or if you want to give it a try, check this link: http://myrtc.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-free-typingmaster-typing-test.html