KNOWING YOUR FUNCTION KEYS.

This post is intended to educate you to expose you to the functionality of the Function Keys in your Keyboard. Most of us have these keys but have rarely used them as form of shortcut while working, it is quite important and makes working on PC faster and easier and provides means of resolving issues that pop out once in while.

Function Keys, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12

F1

If you are in an application and you press this key, you will get its help file. Suppose you are not in Windows Explorer or Desktop, you press this key you will get Windows Help file. Suppose you are in an application, and you want windows help file, press windows key + F1, you will get windows help file. F1 + in combination with other keys:

SHIFT + F1 = Start context-sensitive help or reveal formatting (What is this? help)

ALT + F1 = Go to the next field

ALT + SHIFT + F1 = Go to the previous field

CTRL + ALT + F1 = Display Microsoft system information

For formatting characters and paragraphs:

CTRL + SHIFT + F1 = Change the font