Character Keys; Making Your Keyboard Emulate A Full-Size Keyboard - Toshiba A135-S2326 User Manual

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Learning the Basics
Using the keyboard

Character keys

Typing with the character keys is very much like typing on a
typewriter, except that:
❖
The space bar creates a space character instead of just passing
over an area of the page.
❖
The lowercase letter l (el) and the number 1 are not
interchangeable.
❖
The uppercase letter O and the number 0 are not
interchangeable.

Making your keyboard emulate a full-size keyboard

Although your computer's keyboard layout is compatible with a
standard full-size keyboard, it has fewer keys.
A standard full-size keyboard has two
editing keys; cursor positioning keys; and a numeric keypad.
Pressing the
specially marked keys allows you to emulate a full-size keyboard.
Your computer's keyboard has only one
of the time, this does not matter. However, some programs assign
separate functions to the right and left
regular and numeric pad
Using the
❖
Press
right side of the enhanced keyboard.
❖
Press
the numeric pad of the enhanced keyboard.
Fn key simultaneously in combination with one of the
Enter
Fn key, you can simulate these separate keys, as follows:
Fn and Ctrl simultaneously to simulate the
Fn and Enter simultaneously to simulate the
Enter , Ctrl
Enter and one
Ctrl and
keys on the full-sized keyboard.
, and Alt keys;
Ctrl key. Most
Alt keys, or to the
Ctrl key on the
Enter key on