Hi Esther,
Once again, you did it. I knew there was a function key combo, but I
couldn't remember it. It was the FN key with F6 as I have the function keys
reversed.
Thanks again
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
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On Nov 4, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> There's a NumLock F6 key on the old PowerPC laptops and the earliest
> generation MacBook laptop models. Try pressing F6 or Fn+F6 --
> depending on whether your F-keys are set to software or hardware
> functions. The keyboard layout for these laptops had the volume keys
> on F3, F4, and F5 for mute, volume down, and volume up. On these
> models you could always get the embedded numeric keys to work without
> toggling on the NumLock by pressing the Fn key in combination with the
> corresponding key on the right -- such as Fn+i for the "5" key. The
> other possibility is that you have Mouse Keys turned on, but that's
> less likely. You should be able to use NumPad Commander with the
> embedded numeric keypad, but you don't want to turn Mouse Keys on at
> the same time. I think that when I tried this I lost the ability to
> use some of the main keys like Control, Command, etc. and it was only
> because I had set Mouse Keys to turn on and off with 5 presses of the
> Option key that I was able to easily recover.
>
> HTH. Cheers,
>
> Esther
>
> On Nov 4, 2:12 pm, John Panarese <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> For those of you users who remember Leopard and older Macs, I am not
>> remembering something from those days. I got an old iBook G4 back from a
>> friend and the laptop keyboard is stuck so that the numeric keypad seems to
>> be functioning on the right side of the keyboard. Does anyone recall how to
>> switch it back to normal input mode?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Take Care
>>
>> John D. Panarese
>> Director
>> Mac for the Blind
>> Tel, (631) 724-4479
>> Email, [email protected]
>> Website,http://www.macfortheblind.com
>> Twitter, @macfortheblind
>>
>> APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION
>>
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>>
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