Hi Shaun, The F6 key on your MacBook Pro is the num lock key that toggles your laptop keyboard into number pad entry mode to put all the numbers under easy access of the fingers of your right hand. When this key is pressed to toggle the num lock setting on, "0" is entered with your m key, "1", "2", and "3" are j, k, l, "4","5", and "6" are typed with u,i,o, and "7","8","9" those regular number keys 7,8,9. You also get math operators such as the plus sign as / (the key to the left of the shift key), the minus sign or hyphen as semi-colon, the multiplication sign (asterisk) as the p key, and the division sign (slash) as the 0. The decimal point is where the period normally is and the equal sign is the hyphen key just to the right of 0. This is all on a US English keyboard. I suggest that you turn on keyboard practice (VO-keys+k), press the F6 key to toggle on the num lock and try typing with the keys normally reached with your right hand to hear what the selections say. When I press the 6 key I hear "clear", but I'm not sure what this does.
I personally find the num lock key more of a source of potential problems, since you can occasionally inadvertantly press it when you turn VoiceOver on or off (in pressing the F5 key). Unlike the case of pressing caps lock, VoiceOver doesn't tell you when you press this key. So whenever my keyboard appears to stop working correctly, I check whether the num lock key was toggled on by trying to reset it. Esther On Friday, October 05, 2007, at 12:00PM, "VaShaun Jones" wrote: >Listers I have a Mac Book Pro and have the need to use numbers often. >It is a pain to figure out the number row. I was wondering if there >was a way to enable a num pad simulation on my keyboard. Thanks
