Parts of a Computer Keyboard

Here is a picture of a standard computer keyboard. The parts of the keyboard are labeled, and so are the keys that are not letters and numbers.

The keyboard picture is from a website called DigitalUnite, The DigitalUnite website has some useful basic lessons, including a lesson on how to use a keyboard. Some of the other lessons may confuse you, because the instructions were written for the Windows 7 operating system, and the computers we use in class have Windows 8 or Windows 10. If you don't know what various keys on the keyboard do, study this lesson by clicking on the link below.

My suggestion: Click on the link below to study DigitalUnite's lesson on using a computer keyboard.

How to Use a Computer Keyboard


NOTE: If you want to open WordPad to try creating a document, click on the How to open WordPad link in the lesson. The instructions refer to the Windows 7 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. This happens to be the version on the computers in room 402, our summer classroom.

However, these instructions are not helpful when you use the computers in room 405, which have Windows 10. You can open and use Microsoft Word instead, but WordPad is a simpler word processing program that is good for learners. Follow the instructions below to open WordPad on a Windows 8 or 10 computer:

1. Find the File Manager icon (symbol) on your desktop screen. It should be located on the task bar at the bottom of your screen (it looks like the picture at the right). Click on it to open it.
2. In the column on the left side on the File Manager page, scroll down and find Windows (C:) in the list. Click on it to open it.
3. In the list of files that appears, double click on the Windows folder to open it.
4. Scroll down the list of files, all the way to the bottom. Double-click on the very last file, which is labeled write, to open WordPad.