P
P may refer to any of the following:
1. P is a keyboard key used with the keyboard shortcuts Alt+P, Command+P, and Ctrl+P.
2. With Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet programs, "P" is the sixteenth column of a spreadsheet. To reference the first cell in the column, you'd use "P1."
3. With Adobe Photoshop, P is a shortcut to select the Pen tool. Pressing Shift+P cycles through related tools, including the Freeform Pen tool, Curvature Pen tool, Add Anchor Point tool, Delete Anchor Point tool, and Convert Paint tool.
4. With HTML (hypertext markup language), the <p> tag creates a new paragraph. See our <p> tag page for further information.
5. When with a number like 720p or 1080p, the "p" indicates the resolution is progressive.
6. With Microsoft Narrator, pressing the "P" key navigates to the next paragraph.
7. P is the SI-derived symbol peta, when using a lowercase p, it's a pico.
8. In the phonetic alphabet, "P" is often pronounced as "papa."
9. P is the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet. The letter "P" comes after "O" and is followed by the letter "Q." To create a capitalized "P," press Shift and P at the same time.
With U.S. QWERTY keyboards, the "P" key is on the top row, to the right of "O" and left of the "[" (open square bracket) key. See our keyboard page for a visual example of all keyboard keys.
If the "P" key is not working on the keyboard, see: Some keys on my computer keyboard aren't working.
In ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the uppercase "P" is "080" in decimal (01010000 in binary). The lowercase "p" is "112" in decimal (01110000 in binary).
The number 7 on a phone keypad creates a "P" on a US phone.