La Carlota City College OA 22 Advance Keyboarding PDF

***La Carlota City College*** ***College of Business and Management*** ***OA 22: Advance Keyboarding & Document Processing*** ***Engr. Khrisna Mae G. Salhay, ECE, LPT, MAEd*** **Module 3: Getting Ready to Key** **I. DEFINITION OF TERMS** - - **II. PROPER FINGER PLACE...

***La Carlota City College*** ***College of Business and Management*** ***OA 22: Advance Keyboarding & Document Processing*** ***Engr. Khrisna Mae G. Salhay, ECE, LPT, MAEd*** **Module 3: Getting Ready to Key** **I. DEFINITION OF TERMS** - - **II. PROPER FINGER PLACEMENT** - Each finger rests on a particular key in the home row of the keyboard when not typing, in order to always keep \"grounded\" and oriented. - The home keys (ASDF JKL; ) are outlined on the next diagram. - The thumbs remain in the air, or very gently in contact with the keys below. - Each finger is responsible for a vertical column of keys, which you can think of as a \"home column\". - The column is not straight up and down, but rather slopes up to the left. - Both index fingers are responsible for an additional column, the one next to their home columns towards the middle of the keyboard. - The thumbs are used for the space bar, and depending on the shape of your keyboard it can also be used for the \"command\" (Apple computers) or \"Windows "(PCs) key. - The left-hand pinky is also responsible for all the keys to the left of its home column, including the left shift key, caps lock, tab, tilde, escape and others. - The position of the hands is much the same as it was when the method was developed back in the 1880s for use with a typewriter. - In fact, the modern-day keyboard layout, commonly known as **QWERTY**, hasn't changed much over the years. - Perhaps the most relevant difference for typists was the addition of the delete key with the advent of the computer! **The Home Rows** - At rest, the fingers sit on the home row keys. If you're not sure which ones these are, look two lines up from the spacebar on your keyboard and you'll see them starting with ASDF on the left. - The fingers of each hand should sit on four keys each. The left-hand pinky finger starts things off on the "A" key, the ring finger sits on the "S" key, the middle finger takes the "D" and the index the "F". - Thumbs don't have a row and typically hover over the spacebar which can be hit with either hand, depending on the typist's preference. - When it comes to the right hand, the index starts off on the "J" key and the fingers fall in line across the "K," "L" and ";" to complete the row. **III. Standard Procedures for Learning New Key Reaches** 1. 2. 3. *For an upward reach, straighten the fingers lightly, for a downward reach, curve it a bit more.* 4. 5. **IV. Keyboarding Rules for Spacing with Punctuation Marks** 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. **IV. Gross Words a Minute** **GWAM =** [\$\\frac{\\mathbf{\\text{Total\~no.\~of\~words}}}{\\mathbf{\\text{Total\~Time}}}\$]{.math.inline} ***NWAM = GWAM -- Errors*** *Where: GWAM = gross words a minute* *NWAM = net words a minute* *Total time in minutes* *Example:* *Total words = 176 Errors = 3 Time = 5 minutes* **GWAM =** [\$\\frac{\\mathbf{\\text{Total\~no.\~of\~words}}}{\\mathbf{\\text{Total\~Time}}}\\mathbf{=}\\frac{\\mathbf{176}}{\\mathbf{5}}\\mathbf{=}\\mathbf{35}\$]{.math.inline} ***NWAM = GWAM -- Error = 35 -- 3 = 32*** Diagram Description automatically generated with medium confidence