Use hyphens to create compound words like "twenty-one" and "high-stakes." The hyphen - is found on the key just to the right of the 0 key on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard. Two asterisks around a word or phrase shows emphasis in a text or e-mail message, like this: "I can't *believe* he said that!" One asterisk tells the reader to look for a footnote with more information at the bottom of the page. You will use the asterisk * found above the 8 when you're typing a document with footnotes, and sometimes when you're keyboarding online. The ampersand is the & symbol on the 7 key, and you'll use this to replace the word "and." Up to a few decades ago, this was a common way of saying "and" but these days it's mostly used in names, like "AT&T." You'll probably only use this symbol if you're typing a mathematical formula, such as 3^2, which is shorthand for "three to the power of two" or "three squared." The ^ symbol is called the carat symbol, and it's right above the 6 key on the top row of a standard QWERTY keyboard.
#KEYBOARD TYPING FINGERS HOW TO#
After learning what each symbol is, you'll have a short typing test to start practicing how to type them. Even if you don't do much touch typing now, you might have a job in the future that uses these symbols frequently. Again, you might never use these except during an online typing test, but you should be familiar with where they are and what they're used for.
Let's start this lesson with an explanation of each of the right-hand top row symbols. If you don't remember how to type those symbols, go back to Lesson 12 and run through the free typing test at the end until you can type them easily. You've already learned two of these: the parentheses, which we covered in the twelfth of these typing lessons. Your typing practice continues in this lesson, where you'll learn the symbols that are typed with the fingers of the right hand. Ops! This site does not work unless you turn on JavaScript.
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