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What is Shift 7 on keyboard?

Creating the & symbol on a U.S. keyboard To create the ampersand symbol using a U.S. keyboard, hold down the Shift and press the 7 key on the top of the keyboard.

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Ampersand

The ampersand ( & ) symbol, also known as the "epershand" or "and" symbol, is found above the number 7 key on a US QWERTY keyboard.

Where is the ampersand key on the keyboard?

Below is an overview of a computer keyboard with the ampersand key highlighted in blue.

How to create the & symbol

Creating the & symbol on a U.S. keyboard

To create the ampersand symbol using a U.S. keyboard, hold down the Shift and press the 7 key on the top of the keyboard.

Tip Doing the Alt code Alt +38 can also create an ampersand.

Creating the & symbol on a smartphone or tablet

To create an ampersand on an Android or Apple smartphone or tablet, open the keyboard, go into the numbers (123) or symbols (sym) section, and tap the & symbol.

What is an ampersand used for on a computer?

In literature or English text, the ampersand is used as shorthand to mean "and," as in "John & Rob went to the baseball game." It is also used in programming languages, including Visual Basic (to combine variables and literal text), C++ (denoting an address in memory) and Perl (to call a user-defined subroutine). It can also be used in Excel spreadsheet formulas to combine several values (cells) into a single value (cell) and in HTML for extended HTML characters.

Excel formula example

In the example below, Cell D2 is being made a full name by taking everything in A2, B2, and CD using the ampersand.

Boolean AND operator

Many programming languages use two ampersands next to each other as a Boolean AND operator. For example, in the below code, if the variables $computer and $hope are equal to "1," then a message is printed. However, if either variables are not equal to "1" then nothing is printed. if (($computer == 1) && ($hope == 1)) { print "Both variables are equal to one."; }

HTML extended character example

When creating a web page, some characters (all shown on extended HTML characters page) require an extended character code to be correctly seen. For example, because quotes (") are used in HTML, to add a quote to a web page's text you need to use the extended HTML code " in the HTML code. All extended HTML character codes begin with an ampersand and end with a semicolon. Also, the ampersand itself must also use an extended character code. In other words, if you wanted to show "&" on an HTML web page, you would need to use the code & in HTML.

URL example

Within a URL the ampersand is used to separate variables. For example, in the example below there are two different variables, "q" that equals "example search" and "example" that equals "test". These variables can be read by the search.cgi script and used to perform different functions. See our URL definition for further information and a breakdown of URLs.

https://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=example%20search&example=test

Perl example

In the below Perl example, the subroutine "sayhello" is being called with the &sayhello; command. When this code is executed, it prints "hello" to the screen.

&sayhello; sub sayhello { print "hello"; }

Visual Basic example

In the below Visual Basic example, the variable vFullName is being assigned the vFirst and vLast variables to create a variable with the full name. dim vFirst as string dim vLast as string dim vFullName as string vFirst = "John" vLast = "Smith" vFullName = vFirst & " " & vLast

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What is the difference between R1 R2 R3 R4 keycaps?

Re: What are the differences between R1-R2-R3-R4 keycaps? They are different heights and angles. They can be interchanged, as in they will fit on the switch, but it will be uncomfortable to type on and look pretty terrible in most cases.

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