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2. Modifier key - Wikipedia

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   Modifier keys on personal computers. The most common are: ⇧ Shift. ⌃ Ctrl (C on tr o l) ⎇ Alt (Alt ernate) – also labelled ⌥ Option on Apple keyboards. ⇮ AltGr (Alt ernate Gr aphic) Meta – Meta key, found on MIT, Symbolics, and Sun Microsystems keyboards. Hyper – Hyper key, found on the Space-cadet keyboard.

3. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

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   A pointing stick on a mid-1990s-era Toshiba laptop. The two buttons below the keyboard act as a computer mouse: the top button is used for left-clicking while the bottom button is used for right-clicking. Optical pointing sticks are also used on some Ultrabook tablet hybrids, such as the Sony Duo 11, ThinkPad Tablet and Samsung Ativ Q.

4. Delete key - Wikipedia

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   Delete key. The delete key (often abbreviated del) is a button on most computer keyboards which is typically used to delete either (in text mode) the character ahead of or beneath the cursor, or (in GUI mode) the currently-selected object. The key is sometimes referred to as the "forward delete" key. This is because the backspace key also ...

5. Keyboard layout - Wikipedia

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   A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard. Physical layout is the actual positioning of keys on a keyboard. Visual layout is the arrangement of the legends ...

6. Computer keyboard - Wikipedia

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   A computer keyboard is a peripheral input device modeled after the typewriter keyboard [1] [2] which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches. Replacing early punched cards and paper tape technology, interaction via teleprinter -style keyboards have been the main input method for computers since ...

7. Page Up and Page Down keys - Wikipedia

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   Page Up and Page Down keys. The Page Up and Page Down keys (sometimes abbreviated as PgUp and PgDn) are two keys commonly found on computer keyboards. The two keys are primarily used to scroll up or down in documents, but the scrolling distance varies between different applications. In word processors, for instance, they may jump by an emulated ...