Thanks for the help. I am using version 2.75

I have the newer version, but have not installed it yet. Not sure if it over-writes 2.75 or installs it along side any previous versions.

I went back and tried it again and I was able to cap the top of the gin object. I had to use Alt-F to do it. It made some random triangles. When I tabbed into object mode, the surface was smooth though. Hurray! Shift-F did not work for capping. When I pressed that key combination, there was a line of information that appeared near the bottom of the screen. The first thing it said was to left click to confirm. It also said Right click to cancel, WASD: Move around. If I moved the mouse the work area moved and I could easily slide the entire model off the screen if I moved the mouse too quickly.

I tried creating a new scene. Then I added a circle, tabbed into edit mode and extruded. Then I selected the top veritces and pressed Shift-F, but the same thing happened as I described above. I had to use Atl-F to cap. Shift-F seemed to be some kind of pan for the workspace. I tried to do a screen shot, but PrtScrn didn't capture anything and I couldn't stay in that "mode" and select the snipping tool.

I assume you can customize Blender, but I haven't changed anything. Don't even have a clue about doing it. I seem to remember you can drag the panels around, but so far I haven't even done that.

In any case I go it to work. I was able to cap the gin object.

I think as you said Unroken-fighter, Shift+F is shifting the focus of the camera.

I also had some problems with the castle tutorial, as Lobo3433 has said I restarted a number of times but after a while some things would start to look or act differently. Eventually, I just pressed on and completed as best I could. Still I have been learning a lot from the videos and the tutorials.

Thanks again.