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bracket/ bracket/
less than greater than
- minus sign + plus sign
% percent sign ? question mark
£ US/Canada: pound # US/Canada:
sterling sign number sign/
Other Dialects: pound/pound sign
pound sign/pound Other Dialects:
hash sign/
sharp sign
§ section sign ; semicolon
(space) space bar (tab) tab key
~ tilde _ underscore
| vertical bar :-( frowny face
:-) smiley face ;-) winky face
Starting, stopping, and switching programs
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Start Start a program or document on
Internet Explorer your Start menu or desktop, in this
example, Internet Explorer.
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Start Mail Start your default e-mail program.
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Click Start menu Open the Windows Start menu.
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Switch To Switch to a running program, in
Internet Explorer this example, Internet Explorer. The
name must be in the program’s title
bar.
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Switch To Switch to the next open window
Next Window on your screen.
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Switch To Switch to the previous open
Previous Window window on your screen.
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Click Close Close the current window or
program.
Controlling windows and menus
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Click File Click a menu, button, or control, in
this example, “File.”
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Click Maximize Maximize the current window to
take up the full screen.
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Click Minimize Minimize the current window to the
taskbar.
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Click Restore Restore the current window to its
normal size.
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9/12 nine [slash] twelve (or nine over
twelve)
130/70 one thirty over seventy
V Roman five
XXIV Roman twenty Roman four
Entering punctuation and special characters
& ampersand/ * asterisk
and sign
’ apostrophe ’s apostrophe s
@ at sign ` backquote
‘ open single quote/ ’ close single quote/
begin single quote end single quote
“ open quote “ close quote/
begin quote end quote
\ backslash / slash/
forward slash
: colon , comma
^ caret — dash
. dot/ . US/Canada: period
point Other Dialects:
full stop
$ dollar sign ... ellipsis
= equal sign Û euro sign/euro
! exclamation point/ - hyphen/
exclamation mark numeric hyphen
{ US/Canada: open } US/Canada: close
brace/left brace brace/right brace
Other Dialects: Other Dialects:
open curly bracket/ close curly bracket/
left curly bracket right curly bracket
[ US/Canada: ] US/Canada:
open bracket/ close bracket/
left bracket right bracket
Other Dialects: Other Dialects:
open square close square
bracket/left bracket/right
square bracket square bracket
( All Dialects: ) All Dialects:
open parenthesis/ close parenthesis/
left parenthesis right parenthesis
Outside US/Canada: Outside US/Canada:
open bracket/ close bracket/
left bracket right bracket
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