Unit 4 | Keyboarding Vocabulary

Key on the keyboard that spaces the cursor forward one space at a time and produces a blank space when pressed

• Arrow Key

• Spacebar

• Backspace Key

• Delete Key

Used to remove a character to the right of the cursor

• Delete Key

• ESC Key

• Backspace Key

• Spacebar

Used to remove a character to the left of the cursor

• Backspace key

• Delete Key

• Spacebar

• Arrow Keys

Degree of freedom from errors measured from zero

• Gross Words a Minute

• Rate

• Accuracy

• Tab

Keys on a keyboard that move the cursor left, right, up, or down

• Home Row Keys

• Caps Lock

• Function Keys

• Arrow Keys

Key on the keyboard that is used to key all capital letters without holding the shift key

• Caps Lock

• Default

• ESC Key

• QWERTY Keyboard

Placing text so that half of the text is on each side of the center point

• Cursor

• Technique

• Centering

• Tab

Lighted point on a display screen where the next character or space can be entered

• QWERTY Keyboard

• Cursor

• Numeric Keyboard

• Function Keys

Preset condition in software that controls margin, line, spacing, and tab settings

• Accuracy

• Rate

• Default

• Technique

Text, especially formatted, such as a numbered list, memo, letter, report, outline, title page, or reference page

• Letter Keys

• Document

• Keyboard

• Word Wrap