P A G E I V
<
open angle
>
close angle
bracket/
bracket/
less than
greater than
-
minus sign
+
plus sign
%
percent sign
?
question mark
£
US/Canada:
pound #
US/Canada:
sterling sign
number sign/
Other Dialects:
pound/pound sign
pound sign/pound
Other Dialects:
hash sign/
sharp sign
§
section sign
;
semicolon
(space) space bar
(tab)
tab key
~
tilde
_
underscore
|
vertical bar
:-(
frowny face
:-)
smiley face
;-)
winky face
Starting, stopping, and switching programs
●
Start
Start a program or document on
Internet Explorer
your Start menu or desktop, in this
example, Internet Explorer.
●
Start
Start your default e-mail program.
●
Click Start menu
Open the Windows Start menu.
●
Switch To
Switch to a running program, in
Internet Explorer
this example, Internet Explorer. The
name must be in the program’s title
bar.
●
Switch To
Switch to the next open window
Next Window
on your screen.
●
Switch To
Switch to the previous open
Previous Window window on your screen.
●
Click Close
Close the current window or
program.
Controlling windows and menus
●
Click File
Click a menu, button, or control, in
this example, “File.”
●
Click Maximize
Maximize the current window to
take up the full screen.
●
Click Minimize
Minimize the current window to the
taskbar.
●
Click Restore
Restore the current window to its
normal size.
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9/12
nine [slash] twelve (or nine over
twelve)
130/70
one thirty over seventy
V
Roman five
XXIV
Roman twenty Roman four
Entering punctuation and special characters
&
ampersand/
*
asterisk
and sign
’
apostrophe
’s
apostrophe s
@
at sign
`
backquote
‘
open single quote/
’
close single quote/
begin single quote
end single quote
“
open quote
“
close quote/
begin quote
end quote
\
backslash
/
slash/
forward slash
:
colon
,
comma
^
caret
—
dash
.
dot/
.
US/Canada:
period
point
Other Dialects:
full stop
$
dollar sign
...
ellipsis
=
equal sign
Û
euro sign/euro
!
exclamation point/
-
hyphen/
exclamation mark
numeric hyphen
{
US/Canada:
open
}
US/Canada:
close
brace/left brace
brace/right brace
Other Dialects:
Other Dialects:
open curly bracket/
close curly bracket/
left curly bracket
right curly bracket
[
US/Canada:
]
US/Canada:
open bracket/
close bracket/
left bracket
right bracket
Other Dialects:
Other Dialects:
open square
close square
bracket/left bracket/right
square bracket
square bracket
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All Dialects:
)
All Dialects:
open parenthesis/
close parenthesis/
left parenthesis
right parenthesis
Outside US/Canada:
Outside US/Canada:
open bracket/
close bracket/
left bracket
right bracket
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