Arrow Keys

Depending on your keyboard, you may have arrow keys (keys with nothing but an arrow on each of them) tucked in with your letter keys, or you may have a separate little set of four arrow keys, or on laptops your arrow keys are added onto existing character keys. Arrow keys are used for different things in different programs.

These are examples of menu commands that use the arrow keys for shortcuts.

In word processing programs you can use the arrow keys to move the insertion point (the insertion point is that thin, flashing, vertical ...

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