Computer keyboard is a part of a computer system that sends data to the computer system. It is a hardware device that consist of keys such as Alphabets (A-Z), Numbers(0-9), special(Ctrl, Alt, Enter etc), function (f1 - f12) keys respectively.

There are two types of keyboard
1. Standard Keyboard
2. Enhanced Keyboard
Enhanced keyboard has more keys than the standard keyboard.

We have two forms of keyboards
1. PS2 Keyboard
2. USB Keyboard
3. Wireless Keyboard
The PS2 keyboards are old type of keyboard that uses pin which are connected to PS2 port on the system unit, USB Keyboard are the recent keyboard whose mouth is connected to the USB port while wireless keyboard works when there is a Bluetooth connection between the keyboard and the system unit

Functions of some keys on the keyboard
1. Home key: This moves the blinking cursor to the beginning of a line of text in a document

2. Delete key: This remove unwanted text from left to right, meaning if the blinking cursor is behind a text and delete key is pressed it removes the text in front of the blinking cursor.

3.Alt + Enter: This command creates/breaks a new Page/ moves line of text to a new page while working with Microsoft Word.

4. Alt + Tab: This switches between active and opened windows.

5. CapsLock: This creates uppercase text when the key is toggled on while working with Microsoft word but when shift key is hold down with other text, it creates lowercase text.

Do you know you can work with keyboard without a computer mouse?

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