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Symbols: Brackets, hash and percent
Shifted number keys give you brackets, the hash, percent and ampersand. Office work, invoices and anything technical lean on these, and they are the last characters most self-taught typists learn to hit without looking.
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Shifted number keys give you brackets, the hash, percent and ampersand. Office work, invoices and anything technical lean on these, and they are the last characters most self-taught typists learn to hit without looking.
New keys introduced here: (, ), #, %, &.
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