Hi Dennis, I'm not sure what you mean by "new BlueTooth IMac keyboard but with a nifty little bluetooth numeric keypad that locks into the main keyboard." I think you mean that you're using an Apple Wireless Keyboard and that maybe you have something like the Cropmark LMP Bluetooth Keypad attached to it. If this is the case, then you're asking what the standard Mac laptop shortcuts are for Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down, since the Apple Wireless Keyboard is exactly like the MacBook Pro keyboard, and is almost exactly like the MacBook Air keyboards. (Since 2011 the MacBook Air keyboards removed the "eject" key, which was on the F12 key of earlier MBA models; there's no space for a separate power button above the top row of keys.)
You access these keys by pressing the arrow keys in combination with the "Fn" key in the bottom left corner of the keyboard. The bottom row of keys are: Fn Ctrl Option Cmd Space bar Cmd Option and then the half-height arrow keys in an inverted T shape. Fn+Left Arrow "Home" Fn+Right Arrow "End" Fn+Up Arrow "Page Up" Fn+Down Arrow "Page Down" Other combinations are: Fn+Delete "Forward Delete" (character) Fn+Option+Delete "Forward Delete" (word) Fn+Return "Enter" This means that on a laptop if you want to go to the first element of a list, table, or web page (such as in the Mail Messages table), the command VO+Shift+Home is VO+Fn+Shift+Left Arrow, and moving to the last element with VO+Shift+End is VO+Fn+Shift+Right Arrow. (Without the Shift key you are simply moving to the first or last "visible" element, which might not be the true beginning or end of a table). On my laptops I use Fn+Down Arrow to cycle through the three sections of the Dock: Applications, Files & Folders, and Trash. You can use Fn+Up Arrow to cycle through in the reverse direction, or you can add a press of the Shift key with either of these shortcut key combinations to reverse the direction. I also use Fn+Left Arrow to the move to the first Application in the Dock and Fn+Right Arrow to move to the Trash. You can also select text by blocks of pages with Shift+Fn+Down Arrow or Up Arrow, which is different from selecting from the present position to the bottom or top of a document (Shift+Command+Down Arrow or Up Arrow). My experience with the Bluetooth numeric keypad is that when first paired I could use NumPad Commander combinations, but as soon as I needed to use a key like "escape" on the regular wireless keyboard -- for example, if I had turned on keyboard help mode with VO+k, and now wanted to exit this mode -- I could only use the unmodified NumPad Commander combinations. Let me know if this is not the case. The issue, I believe, is that keyboards on the Mac are identified by pressing certain keys, assuming that a full keyboard is present. And I think that when I press the "Escape" key on the regular Apple Wireless Keyboard, the system somehow thinks that this is a keyboard without a numeric keypad. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Dennis Freedman wrote: > Hi folks > I must be getting old because every time I try to switch completely from > Windows to IMac I forget shortcuts. help please with my setup: > Using the new BlueTooth IMac keyboard but with a nifty little bluetooth > numeric keypad that locks into the main keyboard. > Think I've got the NUMPAD layout set up correctly but can't work out which > combination of function key and numpad keys to use for Home, End, PageUp, > PageDown etc. > > Any help welcomed please. > Dennis. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
