Hey Jewels, Our emails crossed in cyberspace :-) Turn F12 back on and then to use that key to turn up your sound just press the fn key and F12 key.
Then when you just press F12 you will get dashboard When you press fn & F12 keys you will turn up your sound. Cheers, Ronni On 08/02/2012, at 4:00 PM, Julie Bedford wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > I am ashamed to say I am using Leopard (10.5.8). Just had a look at > the Keyboard in > Systems Preferences (never realised this existed !) Turned off F12 > which is the dashboard. > Any ideas on how I can change F11 and F12 to be volume up and volume > down (as the > little pictures on the key indicates). > > I haven't upgraded my OS yet as waiting for the new Mac tower to > become available, but > it appears they may not bring out a new model as it's been years since > the last model. > > Cheers > Jewels > > On 08/02/2012, at 3:31 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Jewels, >> >> Are you in Lion or Snow Leopard? >> The volume keys (& all the top keys) are Function keys. >> Check in System Preferences > Keyboard to see what F12 is set to do. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> On 08/02/2012, at 1:30 PM, Julie Bedford wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Not sure if this has any relation, but I purchased a new keyboard >>> last >>> week and now find that when I turn the sound volume up or down on the >>> keyboard, all I get is shifting to the side of whatever is opened on >>> my desktop. I was thinking about returning it, but possibly there >>> may >>> be a more obvious cause that I am unaware of. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jewels >>> >>> On 08/02/2012, at 12:57 PM, William Chesnutt wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ronni, >>>> >>>> Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately, that's not the answer - >>>> sticky keys is definitely switched off. Since my last post, I have >>>> also noticed that “shift-double quote" also appears to cause a >>>> problem, it wants to open up a locked AppleWorks document. This is >>>> all very puzzling, but I appreciate your assistance. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Bill Chesnutt. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 08/02/2012, at 12:47 pm, Ronda Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Bill, >>>>> >>>>> You don’t happen to have ‘Sticky Keys’ ON in System Preferences > >>>>> Universal Access - Keyboard? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Ronni >>>>> >>>>> On 08/02/2012, at 12:16 PM, William Chesnutt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi List, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am running 10.6.8 on a Mac Pro. My system has started behaving >>>>>> oddly. When I am typing in a word processing document and use the >>>>>> shift key with either an “i" or an “r" I get unexpected (and >>>>>> unwanted) behaviour. In the case of “i" the machine brings the >>>>>> finder up as the frontmost application. In the case of “r" it >>>>>> opens a folder on my desktop for Accounts Receivable. >>>>>> >>>>>> I do not recollect that either of these things occurred in the >>>>>> past. I haven't modified any settings or done anything else that >>>>>> I know of to cause this. I have looked at all the Preference >>>>>> settings, especially Keyboard Shortcuts, but can't find a way to >>>>>> turn this behaviour off. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can anybody shed any light on this for me? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Bill Chesnutt >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >>> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
