Hello Janet, Welcome to the mac-access list. I believe that the alt, control, and Windows keys are already usable for you on your MacBook Air, with the "Alt" key corresponding to the "Option" key, the "Control" key having the same name on the Mac, and the "Windows" key corresponding to the "Command" key on the Mac keyboard. The bottom row of keys on your MacBook Air are, from left to right, "Fn", "Control", "Option" (or Alt), "Command", and then the space bar. To the right of the space bar are another "Command" and "Option" key, then the "inverted T" of half-height arrow keys.
I don't believe there is an "Insert" key on the MacBook Air keyboard. On a full-size keyboard (also called an "extended keyboard") that is used with some desktop Macs, the "Help" key, which is in a bank of keys to the right of the main keyboard keys, to the left of the "Home" key and just below the "F14" key, can be used as an Insert key. Most people remap this key to another key position -- like the "right alt" key, which is the second "Option" key on the right side of the space bar, or the "right command" key. On the MacBook Air and other laptop keyboards, as well as with the Apple Wireless keyboard, the Fn key pressed together with the arrow keys gives you "Home", "End", etc.: Fn+Left Arrow "Home" Fn+Right Arrow "End" Fn+Up Arrow "Page Up" Fn+Down Arrow "Page Down" I'm not a Windows user, so you may get more helpful suggestions from other list members, but my understanding is that you only need to remap the Insert key, which doesn't exist on your MacBook Air keyboard, to another key that does exist. In Sharp keys you would simply select the corresponding keys from the two list views for "from" and "to" mappings. There is likely a slick way to do this with KeyRemap4MacBook, too, as an alternative to SharpKeys, since I know some folks set this up with two-key press combinations to remap keys, but I haven't looked into the PC side of things. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 25, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Janet Ingber wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is my first post. I have VMWare fusion on my MacBook Air and I've got > Windows 7 and Window-Eyes 8.0 > > I understand that I have to re-map my keyboard so I will have the alt, > control, insert and Windows keys. I installed Sharp Keys, but can't find > these keys on their list. I found selections such as "right alt" but not > just alt. Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks, > Janet <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
