Many people wonder what the top row of buttons on a keyboard are all about. These are the Function Keys. These have origins in the earliest days of computers.
My experience with computers goes back to the early 1980’s on a time-shared mainframe accessed on 64K telco data circuits and dumb terminals. This was before there were mice, and application menus were selected and opened using the Function keys (F keys) , and then using the Tab key to tab through the selections, and hitting Enter to execute a menu selection.
In the early nineties, I was working on a very new IBM clone personal computer. Still no mouse, and to make finding the menu items easier, applications such as WordPerfect came with a cutout template that fit over the F keys. Some examples follow:
I found the following image of the F-key functions. These keyboard shortcuts sit work, and some of them may become favorites of yours.
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I am a cybersecurity and IT instructor, cybersecurity analyst, pen-tester, trainer, and speaker. I am an owner of the WyzCo Group Inc. In addition to consulting on security products and services, I also conduct security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. I also teach Cybersecurity Awareness Training classes. I work as an information technology and cybersecurity instructor for several training and certification organizations. I have worked in corporate, military, government, and workforce development training environments I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the Minnesota Bloggers Conference, Secure360 Security Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, the (ISC)2 World Congress 2016, and the ISSA International Conference 2017, and many local community organizations, including Chambers of Commerce, SCORE, and several school districts. I have been blogging on cybersecurity since 2006 at http://wyzguyscybersecurity.com