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title: "What does the keyboard do?"  
description: "What does the keyboard do?"  
author: "Mukul Goenka"  
published: 2022-05-11  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97287/what-does-the-keyboard-do  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "keyboard"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What does the keyboard do?

What does the keyboard do?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- The fundamental function of a **keyboard** is to serve as an input device. A person can type a document, use keystroke shortcuts, access menus, play games, and do a variety of other things with a keyboard. Depending on the manufacturer, the operating system they're designed for, and whether they're coupled to a desktop computer or part of a laptop, keyboards can have different keys.
- However, these keys, also known as keycaps, are generally the same size and form from keyboard to keyboard. No matter what language or alphabet the keys represent, they're all arranged in a similar layout at a comparable distance from one another.

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