Hi Estelita, If you are using Mouse Keys on a Mac laptop keyboard or an Apple Wireless Keyboard, then you use the "i" key as though it were at the central "5" key position in a numeric keypad. So, if Mouse Keys are turned on, to move the mouse cursor one pixel to the left, you press the Fn key together with the key to the left of the "i" key, or Fn+u. To move the mouse cursor one pixel to the right, you press the Fn key together with the key to the right of the "i" key, or Fn+o. To move up one pixel, you press Fn+8. To move down one pixel, press Fn+k. Treat the keys "7 8 9", "u i o", and "j k l" as the counterparts to the "7 8 9", "4 5 6" and "1 2 3" keys on a numeric keypad. Just think of the "i" key as corresponding to the "5" key that is the center of the 9-pack of number keys on the numeric keypad. Pressing the key immediately to the left, right, above, or below this key together with the "Fn" key when Mouse keys are turned on moves your mouse cursor one pixel to the left, right, up, or down. Pressing the center key, Fn+i, issues a "click" at the current position of the cursor.
You can read the Apple Knowledge Base document on Shortcuts for Mouse Keys at: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4390 Basically, you're using an embedded numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard, with the "7 8 9" keys in the top row of number keys corresponding to the "7 8 9" keys of a numeric keypad. So the "4 5 6" keys in the embedded numeric keypad are the three keys in the row below that, or "u i o"; and the "1 2 3" keys are the three keys in the row below that, or "j k l". Just think of the "i" key as the current position, and press the adjacent keys to move the mouse cursor in those directions. So to move 30 pixels to the right of the current position with Mouse Keys turned on, hold down the "Fn" key and tap the "o" key 30 times. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Monday, July 1, 2013 4:33:01 PM UTC-10, Nene wrote: > > Hi, > I turned the Mouse Keys enabled in Universal Access preferences in my Mac, > as it says that I can use the keyboard keys to move the mouse pointer etc. > My apple keyboard doesn't have a numeric keypad, so I use the Fn key along > the key commands, but the mouse doesn't work when I try the key commands as > described. > Any idea what is missing here please? > I can turn the mouse on/off by pressing the option key 5 times, that's all > I can do at the moment. > Thank you in advance for any assistance. > > Estelita > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
