Toshiba Portege 4000, User Manual

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Learning the Basics
Using the keyboard
Your computer’s keyboard has only one
Enter
and one
Ctrl
key.
Most of the time this doesn’t matter. However, some programs
assign separate functions to the right and left
Ctrl
and
Alt
keys, or to
the regular and numeric pad
Enter
keys on the full-sized keyboard.
Using the
Fn
key you can simulate these separate keys, as follows:
Press
Fn
and
Ctrl
simultaneously to simulate the
Ctrl
key on the
right side of the enhanced keyboard.
Press
Fn
and
Enter
simultaneously to simulate the
Enter
key on
the numeric pad of the enhanced keyboard.
Ctrl, Fn, and Alt keys
Ctrl, Fn, and Alt keys
The
Ctrl
,
Fn
, and
Alt
keys do different things depending on the
program you are using. For more information, see your program
documentation.
Function keys
The function keys (not to be confused with the
Fn
key) are the 12
keys at the top of the keyboard.
Function keys
F1
through
F12
are called function keys because they execute
programmed functions when pressed. Used in combination with
the
Fn
key, function keys marked with icons execute specific
functions on the computer. For more information, see “Fn-esse”
on page 164 , or “Hot Keys” on page 243 .
Alt Ctrl Fn