Pressing the 'F' key when in Finder makes computer sleep.

Since yesterday, when the focus is on Finder, every time I press 'F', my iMac goes to sleep. I've looked at keyboard shortcuts and can't find any that I've changed. Its annoying because I can't rename files or folders to any name containing an 'F'. I don't know how to fix this.
When I click the Apple menu, right beside 'Sleep' there is an 'F', but only when focus is on Finder.

sebastian406 wrote:
Thanks a lot, that worked. How do you think it happened in the first place?
I haven't the foggiest. Normally, to create a shortcut you have to go to system preferences->keyboard&mouse->keyboard shortcuts and create a new shortcut there. this requires a lot of user input and i have no idea how it could have happened by itself.

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