The
casar
Is
a little
SQUare.
a
verticollne,
or a
dash
on
Ihe
screen
thaI
marks wt1ere the next
character
you
type
wU
oppear
Dora
Is
a gonOlol-purpose term
for
anything you
give
the
com-
plJler to
procoss-words,
numbers, or codes.
Computer programs
onen
give
you a
list
or Choices.
Thi$
Ust
i$
coned a menu,
SOme
menus
are
multllevol-you
make
a Choice
from
one
menu
ond
ooolher
menu
appears
Return
Return has two
common
functions.
In
a word processing program,
pressing Return moves the
cursor
to the left margin
of
the next line.
When you're entering data
or
issuing a
command
to the computer,
Return tells the computer to act
on
what you've just typed,
Esc
Pressing Esc (for
Escape)
usually causes a program to move back
one
or more levels
on
a
menu,
The Escape key may also cause a
program
to
halt ("escapc") from a process. The Esc key
on
the main
kcyboard and the
onc
on
the numeric keypad work the same.
Delete
With
some
programs, you can press Delete
to
erase
characters to
the lert
or
the cursor.
It
erases by backspacing;
it
doesn't erase the
character
under
the cursor.
-
-
.:. Apple lore: Early models
of
the Apple
II
didn't have a Delcle
key,
so
nothing
happens
when
you press Delete
in
some
older
programs. rr Delete doesn't work,
see
the program's manual for
details
on
how
to erase characters.
Shift
and
Caps Lock
The
Shift
key works just like the shift key
on
a typewriter.
You
hold
it
down
while you type another key. The result
is
an uppercase letter
when prcsscd with a
leLter
key
or
the
upper
charaaer
on
a key with
two characters (like the number and punctuation keys
in
the top
row).
lr
you want
all
capital lellers, press
Caps
Lock. When Caps
Lock
is
down, the computer capitali7.es all the letters you type, but no other
keys are affected. For example, a 2 will not become
@.
'l1'lus, you
can type numbers and capital letters without pressing
and
releasing
Shift all the time.
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