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Practice using the Backspace Key to make corrections
  1. Put the mouse cursor (it will change from an arrow to a blinking line) at the end of the sentence.
  2. Click the left mouse button one time. The typing cursor (flashing black line) should appear after the word lamb.
  3. Using the arrow keys on the keyboard move the cursor next to the d in had.
  4. Press the BACKSPACE key to erase the d.
  5. Type an s to change the word had to has.
  6. To move to the next activity, click outside the box.

Next Slide -- The Delete Key
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Keyboard Introduction | The Backspace Key | The Delete Key
Selecting Text using Click & Drag
  
This exercise was adapted with permission from the Technology Learning Center of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo and Erie County Technology Training Department

 

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