Thanks Esther. A lot to think about there – I will play tomorrow. Dennis.
Essentially Natural was started in 1996 by a blind man, Dennis Freedman, after a quest to find organic products that would assist his wife to heal from a road traffic accident On 29 Jul 2012, at 01:27, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> <--- 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]/>. 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