9/05/2007

Lesson 15 - Keyboarding vs. Typewriting



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BASIC KEYBOARDING ERGONOMICS

 
Nimble Fingers Exercise
1. Touch your left and right-hand fingers and thumbs together.
2. Stretch and flex your fingers.
3. Now, pretend you are a spider.
4. Do your "spider push-ups!"
5. OK? Can you give me 20 quick push-ups?


 

 
KEYBOARDING
Some Keyboarding Rules and Tools: click here
 To learn about the parts of the Keyboard: click here
Which fingers go where basic Keyboard Chart: click here
 
Keyboard Exercises
For improving speed and accuracy while being able to type more difficult combinations of letters.

2. Simple Keyboarding Practice
Welcome to online Keyboarding Practice, a series of drills to help you improve your keyboarding technique and speed. Be patient and you will improve your typing skills.
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These online typing test tutorials will help you learn the basic keystrokes. Each topic contains multiple exercises.
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4. Keyboard Rhythm
You can use headphones for this exercise: the purpose of music is to encourage rhythmic typing. This exercise may also be done without headphones; choose a lesson and then type the letters displayed as rhythmically as you can.
 
5. Keyboard Vocabulary Quiz
Test your knowledge of Keyboarding language and functions. Good luck!

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AFRAID OF MICE?
Try these simple shortcuts you'll hardly have to touch a mouse again! Two important reasons to use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse:

1) Using the mouse is one of the main triggers of Repetitive Strain Injury and other similar disorders. Patients report less pain when typing compared to mousing.
2) Once keyboard shortcuts have been mastered, one can work much faster and be more productive.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Samples of simple MS Word Shortcuts: 

Bold - CTRL+B
Bookmark - CTRL+SHIFT+F5
Copy - CTRL+C
Delete - CTRL + X
Dictionary (translating) - ALT+SHIFT+F7
Italics - CTRL + I
Justify Paragraph - CTRL+J
Left Paragraph - CTRL+L
Paste - CTRL + V
Select All - CTRL+ A
Thesaurus - Shift + F7
Underline - CTRL + U2.

Function Keys
  • F1 - Help menu.
  • F2 - Rename (in Windows.)
  • F3 - find files window.
  • F4 - address bar (in Internet Explorer.)
  • F5 - refreshF6 - moves the cursor.
  • F7 - FormatF8 - Safe Mode if pressed during the computer’s boot up process.
  • F9 - no functionality in Windows. May be used in some individual programs.
  • F10 - menu bar.
  • F11 - full screen mode.
  • F12 - no functionality in Windows. May be used in some individual programs.

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