All about the Keyboard

The Third Row

The third row contains mostly letters.

To type lower-case letters, just press the keys.
To type capital letters, hold down a Shift key (which is on the FIFTH ROW ) with one hand and press keys with the other hand.

Type several capital letters here:

Use the mouse to place the arrow pointer on the box above. When the arrow becomes an "I", click the left mouse button.
With one hand, hold down a Shift key.
With the other hand, press a letter key.
Type several of capital letters.

The key on the far left is the tab key, it acts in two ways.

1. On Web pages like this one, tab moves the place for typing between boxes. This is very useful when completing a form on-line. For example:

Use the mouse to place the arrow pointer on box A below.
When the arrow becomes an "I", click the mouse button.
A Flashing Cursor is blinking in box A.
Type your first name.
Press the tab key
The Flashing Cursor is blinking in box B
Type your last name.
Press the tab key
The Flashing Cursor is blinking in box C
Type in your address & after each line hit the Tab key to go on to the next box

2. When typing in a wordprocessor, the tab key moves the flashing cursor a place to the right across the screen. For example:

When you are in a word processor the text appears at the vertical blinking line or flashing cursor.
Pressing tab moves the blinking line 5 spaces to the right.
In wordprocessing programs, holding down the Shift key and pressing tab, moves the line left.
NOTE that Shift-Tab does not move the line to the left or the right on this Web page, it acts as it did in example 1, so unfortunately we cannot explore this feature here!