Chapter 2
The Typing Chapter
In This Chapter
Knowing the PC keyboard
Typing on a touchscreen
Using the spacebar
Using the Enter key
Observing the status bar
Minding the space between pages
Seeing stuff in your text that isn’t there
Living with weird underlines and colored text
Word processing is about using a keyboard. It’s typing. That’s the way computers were used for years, long before the mouse and all the fancy graphics became popular. Yep — ask a grizzled old-timer and you’ll hear tales of ugly text screens and keyboard commands that would tie your fingers in knots. Though things aren’t that bad today, I highly recommend that you bone up on your keyboard skills to get the most ...
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