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The Keyboard: Alt (Alternate Key)

The document defines and describes various keyboard keys and symbols including: The alt, ctrl, shift, tab, esc, function, arrow, page up, page down, delete, print screen, caps lock, hash/pound, and tilde keys. It also defines symbols such as asterisk, ampersand, underscore, plus sign, brackets, parentheses, at sign, percent sign, less than and greater than signs, forward slash, and back slash.

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The Keyboard: Alt (Alternate Key)

The document defines and describes various keyboard keys and symbols including: The alt, ctrl, shift, tab, esc, function, arrow, page up, page down, delete, print screen, caps lock, hash/pound, and tilde keys. It also defines symbols such as asterisk, ampersand, underscore, plus sign, brackets, parentheses, at sign, percent sign, less than and greater than signs, forward slash, and back slash.

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THE KEYBOARD

Alt ( alternate key ) a specific key on a computer keyboard that when pressed in conjunction with other keys produces a wider range of characters Ctrl ( control key ) a computer key which changes the meaning of another key Shift key a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters. There are typically two shift keys, on the left and right sides of the row below the home row. tab key a key that, when pressed, moves the insertion point to the next preset marker. Esc ( escape key ) a key normally in the upper left corner of a keyboard labelled with program specific functions such as backing out of a menu function key any one of several "F" keys on the keyboard that performs a programmable input arrow keys a set of four input buttons on a keypad or keyboard often used for navigation in interfaces or applications. Pgdn ( page down key ) a key which jumps the cursor a preset amount of distance towards the bottom of a document Pgup ( page up key ) a key which jumps the cursor a preset amount of distance towards the top of a document Del ( delete key ) a key which moves the cursor one space to the right deleting any character which might be there Pr Scr ( print screen key ) a key which normally captures the current screen to the clipboard to be pasted into an imaging program Caps Lock key a key which when pressed will toggle characters in upper or lower case # ( hash key ) this key is often used to comment out code or signify a number; in the US this known as a pound sign or a number key ~ ( tilde key )

this key serves a variety of uses, most notably in Unix systems to mark a home folder

asterisk a star (*) character which often means "multiply" in a math equation or "match all" in a RegEx wildcard & ( ampersand ) a key which is used in many languages to mean 'and' underscore The "_" character sometimes used to join words without a space plus sign a "+" operator normally indicating the operation of addition case in typography, this is the distinction between capital (majuscule) and lower (minuscule) letters square brackets the punctuation marks '[' and ']' used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text brackets the punctuation marks '{' and '}' used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text parentheses the punctuation marks '(' and ')'used in pairs to group values or sets of values. @ ( at sign ) this key is often used in email addresses to separate usernames and domain names % ( percent sign ) a symbol meant to show percentage < ( less than sign ) a symbol which means that the value on the left is smaller than the value on the right > ( greater than sign ) a symbol which means that the value on the right is less than the value on the left / ( forward slash ) a key used to separate folders and files, often used in Unix file systems \ ( back slash ) a key used for separating files and folders, normally in a Windows file system.

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