Susan, my tilde (~) is all the way at the top right above the backspace key, next to F12. You'd have to have an awfully big hand to do it the way you described on this computer. For some reason, Dell also hid the delete key in the middle of the right bottom row. Grrr...

(Speaking of F12, remember when there were word-processing programs that had you using all the function keys, all controlled and shifted and control-shifted and everything?--the one I'm thinking about was PC-Write, but I think WordStar did it too.)

Aloha,
Mark

who still remembers the days when if you wanted to make an exclamation point you had to type an apostrophe, backspace, and then type a period!