Making Life Easier
Working with the Keyboard
Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer
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Working with the Keyboard
This section introduces additional keyboard options.
Making Your Keyboard Pretend it Has More Keys
The 101-key enhanced keyboard has two
Enter
,
Ctrl
and
Alt
keys.
The computer’s built-in keyboard has only one of each.
Most of the time this makes no difference. However, some pro-
grams assign separate functions to the right and left
Ctrl
and
Alt
keys, or to the regular and numeric pad
Enter
keys on the enhanced
keyboard. The
Fn
key allows the built-in keyboard to simulate
these separate keys, as follows:
To simulate the:
❖
Ctrl
key on the right side of the enhanced keyboard, press
Fn
+
Ctrl
.
❖
Alt
key on the right side of the enhanced keyboard, press
Fn
+
Alt.
❖
Enter
key on the numeric pad of the enhanced keyboard, press
Fn
+
Enter
.
The Cursor Control Overlay
The keys with the white arrows and white symbols on the left
front are the cursor control overlay. This illustration highlights the
keys in the cursor control overlay:
The cursor control overlay
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