I took a quick look at my table and see F keys above the numbers. Asking why these are positioned above in such manner. From high school I was using the shortcuts (thanks for my genius brother), so now these keys are always near to my reach. I will share this through this article of how these F keys function. But what is F by the way?- This is simply FUNCTION. The F keys are designed to perform various tasks and synchronize pc activity. They serve as the head of the keyboard (gotten from its topmost position).
Here are the results of my successful usage of them.
F1- Help Menu (for most of the applications)
F2- Rename (for Excel)
F3- Displays Find
F4- No action unless supported by another key. Alt + F4 will result in program termination, Another interesting function is typing bold letters and you want to unbold it then just highlight the typed letters and press F4, presto! you will see the magic if you try (it will cause unbolding of the letters)
F5- Refresh Page/Window, and start slide show in MS powerpoint
F6- No function unless supported by another key. Alt + F6 will cause window switch between MS Word, same with Ctrl + F6.
F7- Spelling and Grammar checker in MS word
F8- No action unless supported by another key. Alt + F8 causes macro function in MS Word
F9- No action unless supported by another key. Ctrl + F9 encloses a word inside a curved bracket
F10- Activates Menu bar
F11- In Internet Explorer this will maximize the window as well as minimize when you press it again, very helpful in presentations, In Excel this will open a chart for the highlighted item
F12- Open a new document in MS Word
These are just tips and purely tested commands in my end. So if you will meet the keyboard nextime then I will expect that you say hi to the F one's as well (not just an ordinary key).
Author: Gep