why is there a corrrect way to type?
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Because in anything you do, a system is faster than not having one.  If there weren't a correct way to type, communications would be much slower, from messaging to office work.\n\nThat being said, you can play with the system. You aren't going to do anything spectacular -- or hirable -- as a hunt-and-peck two finger typist, but if you have an injury or something like arthritis you can still manipulate a keyboard and maintain a decent speed with accuracy.
179966
it is a "Home Key" for touch typists...so those who can type without looking at the keys can get there baring on the kbrd without looking at it.
1123238
It's an option in microsoft word.\n\nTry this.\nTools menu - Options\nEdit tab\n\nMake sure there is a check in the "Typing replaces selection" option.
339560
the system is called "qwerty" (look at the top row of your keyboard and you'll know why.)  It's done the way it is so as to be arranged by frequency of use, and to put the most often used keys in easily accesible order.
320673
Duh! All keyboards have the 2 and @ on the same key, same with ' and "! It's suposed to be like that!
690223
The layout of buttons you have mentioned is called the "QWERTY layout". The QWERTY layout is thought by some to be an inefficient one, since it requires a touch-typist to move his or her fingers between rows to type the most common letters. A popular story suggests that it was used for early typewriters because it was inefficient; it slowed a typist down so as to reduce the frequency of the typewriter's typebars from wedging together and jamming the machine. A more likely explanation is that the QWERTY arrangement was designed to reduce the likelihood of internal clashing by placing commonly used combinations of letters farther away from each other inside the machine. This allowed the user to actually type faster without jamming. Unfortunately, no definitive explanation for the QWERTY keyboard has been found, and typewriter aficionados continue to debate the issue.
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the 'qwerty' order of keys was originally arranged due to the limitations of mechanical typewriters... if you typed too quickly, the 'hammers' that printed the letters on the paper would become stuck together.\n\ntherefore, the keys had to be arranged in such a way that the typists would slow down and be less likely to jam the typewriter...
1074207
because, the typists where too fast, so the made up the qwerty keyboard to slow em down\n\nR3dm0
518828
try learning how to type it first
179488
Standard computer keyboards have the @ above the 2 and the " above the '.\n\nThat's the way all keyboards are designed. I don't think there's a way to switch them around.\n\nI haven't seen the " above the 2 since the old mechanical typewriters.\n\nThis is the way it is now.  Every keyboard made is this way. I would really recommend getting used to it. It's not going to change.
541099
Simple.  Highlight the letter you want to move and drag and drop it to new location.  It is actually quicker to do it with a keyboard once you become a fluent typist, but you asked so here it is.
197186
Because some people have far less maturity and brainpower than they do typing skills... and even those are mostly lacking.\n\n~~Naomi
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It's built into the browser. Try Ctrl-F.
283380
It's to give you the option whether to use the keys on the right as numbers or as navigation arrows. If you press the Num Lock, it will work as numbers in a comfortable form that is easier to use if you are entering or calculating plenty of numbers and if you deselect it it will work as navigation arrows in a uncomfortable form.
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When you have the full keyboard, predictive text input becomes less useful. The idea has been tried, for example in the DOS wordprocessor MindReader. Office and OpenOffice also offer to autocomplete longer words, and many editors aimed at coders also offer code completion. \n\nThere have been other attempts to create different forms of input, such as Dasher.
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Word doesn't have the ability to do that, mostly because it isn't connected to the internet. I'm sure you could type up an e-mail in Word, but that would defeat the purpose of the e-mail client's message interface.
535505
You can try F5 on the keyboard, that would be easier.