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All about keyboards

- By Sheryl Morales Base Pob., Pres. Roxas, Capiz

HAVING a keyboard i s needed because primarily it has the buttons that help you execute commands that you need to execute so you can do your work on the computer.

Since we know that it is important, we need to make sure that we are able to maximize the use of the keyboard through making sure that the keyboard is in working condition and we know different shortcuts.

To make sure that the keyboard is in great working condition we need to clean it frequently like daily before it will be used by you and/ or other people so we can get rid of the things that can enter the internal parts of the keyboard or laptop. We should also clean it immediatel­y if something gets spilled on the laptop or keyboard.

We should not apply too much pressure on the keys as well as on the laptop.

We s hould also use different keyboard shortcuts to cut working time like Ctrl+ Y if we want redo the last action, Ctrl+Z if we want to undo the last action, Ctrl+A for selecting all the text before deleting or copying it, Ctrl+H to find and replace words that appear multiple times on the document on productivi­ty programs like Microsoft Word.

As for Microsoft Excel, Ctrl + Shift + Colon i s for entering the current time, Ctrl + Semicolon (;) is for the current date, F11 is for creating a chart which will be put on different worksheet, Ctrl + Shift + $ is for applying the currency format, Ctrl + Shift + # is for applying the date format, Ctrl + Shift + % is for applying the percentage format, and Ctrl + Shift + ^ is for applying the exponentia­l format.

Ctrl+ O can be used to open other documents while you are working on one. Ctrl+number key or Ctrl+Page Up/ Page Down will help us get to different tabs on our web browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

What I wrote above are just some of the different shortcuts t hat we c an use when we are working on documents and other outputs.

The impact of our mastery of the ways to do the output could be lessened if we do not know how to take proper care of the things we use in order to produce the output and if we do not know how to use shortcuts for us to work intelligen­tly and efficientl­y. ( Paid article)

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