Thursday, November 6, 2014

Explanation of the keys on a windows QWERTY Keyboard

The name QWERTY for our computer keyboard is come from the first six letter of our keyboard.
It also preferred as a Universal Key board..
Esc
Equivalent to the clicking the Cancel Button.In a Power Point the Esc key will stop the running
slide show. The keyboard combination Ctrl+Esc will open the Start Menu.
F1
While working in an application,depressing this key will bring up the applications help menu.If
there is no open application F1 will open Windows Help.
F2
Choose ths key to rename the selected item or object.
F3
Depressing this key will display the Find:All Files dialog box.
F4
Selects the Go To A Different Folder Box and moves down the entries in the box(if tool bar is
active in nwindow explorer)
F5
Refreshes the current window. In internet Explorer,F5 will refresh the web page.
F6
Move samong panes in window explorer.
F7     F8     F9   F10
Activate menu bar options . Use right and left arrow to select menus and down arrows to display
pull down menus.
F11
In the Internet explorer this key will allow you to toggle between full screen viewing mode and
normal viewing mode.
F12
Usually  located at the upper right hand corner of your keyboard next to the Scroll Lock and
Pause/Break keys. Often abbreviated PrtScr, the Print Screen key is useful key supported on
most PCs. In DOS , pressing the Print Screen key causes the computer to send whatever images
and text are currently on the display screen to the printer .
Tab
This key can be used to move forward through options in a dialog box.
Ctrl+ Shift+Tab can be used to move backward through the options.
Ctrl+Tab allows movement from one open window to the next in an application with more than
one open window.
Alt+ Tab will Displays the open windows

Windows Keys Shortcuts

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