Using The Keyboard; Character Keys; Making Your Keyboard Emulate A Full-Size Keyboard - Toshiba Tecra A9 Series User Manual

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Learning the Basics

Using the keyboard

Using the keyboard
Your computer's keyboard contains character keys, control keys,
function keys, and special Windows
functionality of a full-size keyboard.
(Sample Illustration) 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
this does not matter. However, some programs assign separate
functions to the regular and numeric pad
keyboard. Using the
follows: Press
on the numeric pad of the enhanced keyboard.
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Fn key simultaneously in combination with one of the
Fn key, you can simulate the separate key, as
and simultaneously to simulate the
Fn Enter
®
keys, providing all the
Enter , Ctrl , and
Enter key. Most of the time,
keys on the full-sized
Enter
Alt keys;
key
Enter