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of keys. It also includes shortcut keys that enable us to carry out certain tasks

more easily and quickly. Usually a keyboard has something between 104 to
110 keys. In addition to the typing keys, the keyboard also has a numeric

keypad through which you can input numbers.

It has control keys like Home, Page up, Page

Down, Insert, Delete, End, Control(Ctrl),

Alternate (Alt), and Escape(Esc) that let you

carry out these simple tasks with just one

click. These keys of a keyboard are similar to
the typewriter keys. The keys of a keyboard

can be divided into the following groups:

Alphabetic Keys: The Alphabetic Keys

are used to type letters (A to Z). We

write words with these Alphabetic

Keys. The keys are however not exactly in alphabetical order. The keys are

arranged in QWERTY arrangement. You can type small as well as capital case

letters using Alphabetic keys. Some special characters nearby Alphabetic key

are brackets, square brackets, front-slash, quotes, double-quotes, comma,

full-stop, etc.

Numeric Keys: There are 0-9 Numeric Keys on the keyboard. On pressing

these keys, the digits like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . . etc. can be typed and displayed on

screen. All these keys have some special characters printed on them. These

special characters are: !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), _, -, =, +, \, |. On pressing the

Shift Key and these number keys simultaneously, the special characters are

displayed on screen. For example, to display a character # on the screen,

press Shift Key and digit key 3 simultaneously.

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