hi, Regarding the Home and End keys on an MBA, these do exist. Press the FN key in the lower left-hand corner along with the left arrow for Home and with the right arrow for End. You may wish to use the Keyboard Practice mode, VO-k, to learn some of these tricks, press the Escape key to leave that mode.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just food for thought. Unless one purchases a 17 inch PC laptop, a numpad is > not included in the keyboard layout on the PC side either. (Maybe OT). Hence, > I have to use a USB external numpad. Because I have Win8 installed in > bootcamp, I have plugged in a full USB keyboard, with a numpad. When I need > to use it on the Mac side, one needs to remember that the ALT key is the > option key (Mac), and the Windows key is the command key on the Mac side. I > do miss not having a dedicated home/end key on the Mac Air's keyboard. I can > access the beginning and the end of a sentence, but navigating with more > advance options have never worked out for me with the native Mac Air > keyboard. JMO. May be I just don't know all the tricks of the trade yet. > *Smile* > > Best, > Eileen > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn > Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 7:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: which lap top > > Hi, > > No, none of the Mac Laptop models have a built-in NumPad. There's just not > enough space for one. Your options are to use a external USB or Bluetooth > NumPad or to use an external extended keyboard either USB or Bluetooth. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > None do, to my knowledge, at least not the modern machines. As others have > said, you can purchase a USB or bluetooth numpad, or a full-sized keyboard > that includes a numpad. > On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Marianne Denning <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I need to purchase a MacBook. The person who will use it has no > vision. The one thing that is important is a key board with the > numeric key pad on the key board. I have a MacBook Air and it does > not have this. Do any of the MacBook pro computers have this? > > -- > Marianne Denning, TVI, MA > Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired > (513) 607-6053 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
