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Keyboard Mastery

The document provides guidelines for proper computer posture, keyboard usage, and document formatting. It covers the importance of maintaining correct posture while typing, the significance of different keyboard layouts, and how to set margins. Additionally, it discusses various types of headings and paragraphs, as well as common errors that affect accuracy and speed in typing.

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Keyboard Mastery

The document provides guidelines for proper computer posture, keyboard usage, and document formatting. It covers the importance of maintaining correct posture while typing, the significance of different keyboard layouts, and how to set margins. Additionally, it discusses various types of headings and paragraphs, as well as common errors that affect accuracy and speed in typing.

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Keyboard Mastery

What is the correct posture for using the computer?


 Ensure that you are comfortably seated with your: feet flat on the floor, one
slightly ahead of the other
 back supported by a comfortable chair
 fingers on the home keys (see below)
 wrists slightly arched – not resting on the keyboard or on the desk.

If you are copying from another document:


 keep your eyes on the copy – not the keyboard!
 keep the copy you are typing from in a position where it can be easily seen.

The Keyboard
The main input device used by a word processor is the keyboard. Many types of
keyboards exist. Keyboards can have different keys depending on the manufacturer, the
operating system they’re designed for, and whether they are attached to a desktop
computer or part of a laptop.
The most used keyboard layout on English-language computers is called QWERTY. It
takes its name from the first six characters on the left of the keyboard’s top row of
letters.

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Special Keys(Modifier Keys) – Ctrl, Alt & Delete

The keys above may be extended by using Control (CTRL), ALT and SHIFT keys - These
keys are called Modifiers.
They cannot be used alone but are used to modify the normal action of another key
when the two are pressed in combination.

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Setting your margins
Before you begin typing, you need to create the margins which are the boundaries
within which to type.
 One-inch margins are mostly used in the preparation of documents.
 Specific instructions will be given if you are required to change these margins.

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In assessing Accuracy and Speed the following errors are penalized:
1. typographical
2. grammatical
3. spelling
4. omission or insertion
5. inappropriate capitalization
6. uninterrupted abbreviations
7. standard abbreviations
8. omission of punctuation marks
1. incorrect spacing in headings
2. transposition

Abbreviations:

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Using Different Types of Headings
Headings indicate the main subject matter of a text to the reader.
The headings for a particular text should be appropriately chosen as they help the reader
to decide whether or not to continue reading the document.

Types of headings are:


• main heading;
• sub-heading;
• shoulder heading;
• paragraph heading;
• marginal or side heading;
• column heading;
• subject heading.

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Paragraph headings:
As the name suggests, paragraph headings are typed at the beginning of a paragraph in
the same line. This may or may not be followed by a period or colon. The appropriate
spacing after the punctuation mark should be inserted. If the paragraph is prepared in
the indented style, the heading should also be indented.

Marginal or side headings:


These headings are typed left aligned to the left side of the page while the paragraph is
typed towards the right of the page, approximately one tab stop from the heading.
It is best to type or wrap the heading in two lines (single line spacing) if it is rather long,
as shown in Figure 6.6.
This type of heading is used in the preparation of programmes, plays, minutes of
meetings, itineraries and other similar documents.
This style could also be achieved by inserting two columns and adjusting
column one to approximately 1.5 inches.

Column headings
Column headings refer to the titles at the top of the columns used to identify what the
information is in that particular column.
This type of heading is normally used in the preparation of tables. See the illustration
that follows:

Subject headings
A subject heading briefly describes the focus of the document. These headings are
displayed in documents such as letters and memoranda.

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Types of Paragraphs

1. Blocked paragraph
2. Indented paragraph
3. Hanging paragraph

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