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How many AGC keystrokes did an Apollo rendezvous take?

My kids have a rather nice picture book about the first moon landing titled “One Giant Leap”. I find it to be a fairly accurate retelling of the events of Apollo 11 in a poetic style. However, one line from the book caught me a bit by surprise:

Collins presses hundreds of keystrokes to make the docking work.

Is this accurate? What was the command module pilot’s responsibility with the AGC for an Apollo rendezvous?