Hi Sherry: Good to know I'm not the only one. Why they reversed everything from the original phone keypad, I'll never know. I started typing when I was in 4th grade, so by the time I started using a computer some 25 years later, the top row was the logical choice. Why learn the num keypad when it's backward. I use the JAWS navigation keys more than ever, and I wouldn't want to constantly turn the numlock on and off. Maybe I'm just lazy. Carlene
Sherry Gomes wrote: > Since I use the num pad for jaws, I still use the regular number row. I > wonder if it's because of typing so many years before computer keyboards and > being used to using that number row. The number pad for numbers really > slows me down because it's backwards from a touch tone phone! Yeah, I know > it's the way calculators are, but I don't use calculators, so it's too weird > for me. my former computer teacher tried to get me to learn it, and I could > have if I wanted, but once I learned I could do everything with the regular > numbers and punctuation keys, I didn't bother. It was too important to have > that num pad always available for my jaws navigation. > > Sherry > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Wagoner > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [JAWS-Users] number pad > > Hi all, > thanks for the info on the number pad. I use it almost all day at work and > find it much faster than using the row of number keys. When entering a long > string of numbers, I find it much faster than the number row. > Mike Wagoner kb4vks/AAV4CL > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
