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Equipment
Only the letter keys are affected when capitals mode is on. If you
want to type the upper character on keys that have two characters
engraved on them, you must use the Shift key.
When you press
Caps Lock
once, the indicator light
Caps Lock,
located in the upper right-hand comer on the keyboard, comes on,
indicating that capitals mode is on. When you press
Caps Lock
again, the light goes off.
The alphanumeric section also contains some control keys. These
keys are
Enter (
J ),
Backspace
and
Tab.
They have varying
functions depending on the program you are using. In some
program manuals the
Enter
key is referred to as the Return key.
The
Ctrl
(Control),
Alt
(Alternate), and
Alt Gr
(Alternate Graphics)
keys are used in conjunction with other keys. They do not produce
characters themselves but change the effect of other keys.
Dead Keys
Also depending on the national layout of the keyboard you are using,
it may have so-called dead keys. When, for example, you type an
accent ( ' ), which is engraved on of the dead keys, the accent does
not appear on the screen until you type the character to be marked
with the accent
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