Buttons and Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Simply read through the information in numbered order on the screen shot image. In your own opened wordpad program, you can look to see where each item is located and try the steps for yourself. If you have trouble reading the screen shot image please find each numbered item below.

1.  Underlined letters in the menu bar indicate that a keyboard shortcut can be used. The Alt (Alternative) key is the master key for this. Example: Pressing keyboard keys ALT-F then N would create a new document in Wordpad.

2.  A pushed button activates a function.

3.  The Button Bar and the Format bar contain buttons for the most commonly used commands.

4.  The Menu contains all the instructions a program can carry out.

5.  The Keyboard Ctrl (control) key put you in control. Control key functions are also indicated in all menu bars by Ctrl+letter.

6.  So it doesn't matter what program you are using, they all indicate what are the Ctrl and Alt Keyboard shortcuts.