Course Outline
Keyboarding Basics
 

Phone:717-560-3552
Fax:717-569-1135
E-Mail: Registrar@pceasy.com

Program Objectives: Students will learn the purpose and function of every key on the keyboard and will be introduced to the basis of touch typing.

• Introduction to the Course
• The Keyboard
• Types of Keyboard Keys
  • Typematic Keys
  • Toggle Keys
  • Combination Keys
  • Sequence Keys
• Erasing Information
• Frequently Used Keys
  • Function Keys
  • Caps Lock
  • Control Key
  • Alternate Key
  • Shift Key
  • Home Key
  • End Key
  • Page Up and Page Down
  • Insert Key
  • Tab Key
  • Print Screen Key
  • Scroll Lock Key
  • Escape Key
• Proper Finger Placement on Keyboard
• Typing Exercises
  • Forefinger and Spacebar
  • "D" and "K" Keys
  • "S" and "L" Keys

• Typing Exercises (continued)
  • "A" and ";" Keys
  • Typing Some Short Words
  • Using the Shift Key
• Miscellaneous Keys on the Keyboard
  • Tilde and Backquote
  • Exclamation Point
  • At Sign
  • Number or Pound Sign
  • Dollar Sign
  • Percent
  • Caret
  • Ampersand
  • Asterisk
  • Parentheses
  • Dash and Underscore
  • Plus Sign and Equal Sign
  • French Braces
  • Square Brackets
  • Pipe and Backslash
  • Colon and Semicolon
  • Quotation Mark and Apostrophe
  • Greater/Less Than Signs
  • Comma
  • Period
  • Question Mark and Slash
  • Flying Windows Key
• Using the Typing Tutor Disk