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Worth its weight. (B.E. Reviews).


Isn't it amazing when products do what their makers say they will? Case in point: Microsoft's Office Keyboard. It promised ease of use and comfort, and it did not disappoint.

Microsoft has done a few things to make the USB USB
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Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
 keyboard more functional. It's included Cut, Copy, and Paste This article is about computer text editing. For rheological properties of pastes such as toothpaste or putty, see Paste (rheology).

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 buttons on the keyboard, and has included a scroll bar A vertical bar on the right side of a window or a horizontal bar at the bottom of a window that is used to move the window contents up and down or left and right. The bar contains a box with square or rounded corners, which together look like an elevator in a shaft.  on the left-hand side left-hand side nizquierda

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, so your other hand won't feel left out of the action. And the Application button lets you easily toggle To alternate back and forth between two states.

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 between open programs, such as Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer. Buttons for those programs are also located on a bar above the F keys, which now do double duty as e-mail keys (Reply, Forward, Send), in addition to opening the Task Pane (a new feature in Office XP; see the review "No Small Task," Techwatch, November 2001).

But the keyboard has one big flaw: its size. One colleague remarked that it was the Cadillac of keyboards--very, very large. With desktop real estate at a premium, added functionality means a bigger keyboard. And the keyboard's curvy form, although aesthetically and ergonomically pleasing, is just too large to be practical for small and home offices. But if you can afford the desktop space, then it's worth the $64.95.
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Title Annotation:peripherals by Microsoft
Author:Donaldson, Sonya A.
Publication:Black Enterprise
Article Type:Evaluation
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Date:Jan 1, 2002
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