Using The Keyboard; Character Keys; Making Your Keyboard Emulate A Full-Size Keyboard - Toshiba PORTEGE R500 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
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.
key simultaneously in combination with one of the
Fn
Enter
key, you can simulate these separate keys, as follows:
Fn
Fn
and
Ctrl
simultaneously to simulate the
®
keys, providing all the
Enter
,
Ctrl
and one
Enter
Ctrl
and
keys on the full-sized keyboard.
, and
Alt
keys;
key. Most
Ctrl
Alt
keys, or to the
Ctrl
key on the

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