What the Shift Key looks like

The shift key is a key on a computer keyboard. It is used to type capital letters (like this: "ABC") instead of lowercase ("abc").

The shift key is also used to type with keys that have more than one symbol on them, such as the number keys and those for punctuation marks. In this case it is used to type the "upper" characters, that is, the symbol that appear above the other. The symbol below does not need the shift key to be pressed. On an English keyboard, these are some of the characters that need the shift key to be pressed down in order to type them:

• the parentheses "(" and ")" are on the same keys as the numbers 9 and 0
• the question mark "?" is on the same key as the slash "/"
• the exclamation point "!" is on the same key as the number 1
• the colon ":" is on the same key as the semicolon ";"