Can anyone tell me how to learn how to use my keyboard? Not typing; I know how to type. But it has all these “special” buttons - like the Windows button - that aren’t part of the main keyboard, and I have no idea how to find out what they do (aside from just pushing them and hoping that A. I don’t break something, and B. I can tell what they do). Is this information hidden somewhere in the depths of my computer’s help files, or must a user just know, or what? And what about the number pad? I have a laptop, and someone very helpfully informed me that it does, indeed, have a number pad built in (I checked and, sure enough, there it is, in grey, in the middle of the keyboard - around the “K”), but I can’t figure out how to activate it. That (the number pad) is the one thing I’ve really been missing since switching to a laptop, so figuring out how to use it would be huge.
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April 14th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Hi there!
Try holding down the “alt” button while typing those numbers. That may or may not work–I’ve never tested it.
Or, here’s a possible solution on someone else’s blog: http://www.northlite.net/ps/numpad.htm
Here’s another link that might be helpful to you: http://www.remembering-your-keyboard-shortcuts.com/function-keys.html
I didn’t know how to do any of these things already, by the way. I just thought I’d do a Google search and learn as well. Hope this helps!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Thanks, Kacie! Unfortunately, none of those worked. But I hadn’t thought of trying to search for it, so I think I’ll try Googling my laptop brand (Toshiba) along with the other terms and see if that helps.