tab key

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Noun

tab key - the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation

tab

key - a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed

typewriter keyboard - a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed

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tab key

n → Tabtaste f; (on typewriter) → Tabulatortaste f

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The second useful function relates to the Tab key, which attempts to complete whatever command you're typing.

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Write part of a sentence, the Google AI pops up a suggestion for the rest, based on the syntax of millions of users, and you only need to hit the tab key to accept it.

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Mr Abeywardena says he developed this app so that even the blind can get the information they need about restaurants by pressing the tab key; as the tab key moves from restaurant to restaurant, the screen readers read out the contents in English to the blind user, without keeping the user at a disadvantage due to his or her visual disability.

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For example, "I haven't seen you" might be autocompleted to "I haven't seen you in a while and I hope you're doing well." You can accept the completion by hitting the tab key.

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Many authors still use the space bar instead of the tab key and tend to centralise titles and headings with the space bar.

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If you turn on Full Keyboard Access in System Preferences (under Keyboard), note that you can now switch through the previous, play/pause, next, AirPlay, and other buttons with the tab key. In our experience, that occasionally meant that we accidentally ended up restarting a track when we tried to use the spacebar to pause, because that button had become tab-selected.