Practical Learning: Typing Readable Characters

1- To open an application, on the Taskbar, click Start
2- Position the mouse on Programs or All Programs
3- Position the mouse on Accessories
4- Move the mouse down and click Notepad
5- To experiment with some of these keys, press each of the following keys I N D O W S 9 8

Key Categories: Action Keys

A second category of keys are those not used to type anything, instead they cause an action. Some of these special keys are:

The letters you typed in the previous section are referred to as lower case or lowercase. To type their equivalent uppercase, first press and hold a Shift key . While the Shift key is down, press the key corresponding to the letter you want. If you wanted to type only one uppercase letter, after typing, you can release Shift. Otherwise, you can keep Shift down and type the desired uppercase letters. At the end, release the Shift key.
If you plan to type a lot of uppercase characters, you can press the Caps Lock key. This causes the keyboard to display a light, usually on the upper-right section of the keyboard of a desktop or the Caps Lock key itself. After typing the uppercase characters, press the Caps Lock again to turn the light off.
Besides being used to type uppercase letters, the Shift key also allows you to access the upper base of the keys that display two of them. Such symbols are: