The number lock button
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From: 50'11N 004' 16W
The number lock button
Simple question: Why?
Am I missing something? What point does it serve other than irritate by being inadvertantly pressed and 'nothing appearing'.
Anyone here find it a useful thing?
...My next rant will be about the semi-colon...
Am I missing something? What point does it serve other than irritate by being inadvertantly pressed and 'nothing appearing'.
Anyone here find it a useful thing?
...My next rant will be about the semi-colon...
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From: Station 42
The Insert key is equally as annoying. I've never intentionally used it and in my early computer days there was much head scratching because I'd pressed it instead of Delete and my work was being eaten up as I typed. 
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Num lock combined with numeric / alpha keys on a laptop has reduced me to tears on occasions. 
No surprise that my personal laptop is a Lenovo with a separate numeric key-pad built-in. I do a lot of numeric work (spreadsheets and the like).
SD
No surprise that my personal laptop is a Lenovo with a separate numeric key-pad built-in. I do a lot of numeric work (spreadsheets and the like).
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From: Surrey, UK
The number lock button
Simple question: Why?
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: London
I get so fed up typing lots of numbers into my laptop while having to continually use the page up & page down keys that I sometimes carry around a separate Microsoft keyboard (£10 from PC World) that I plugged in. It makes typing in much easier as I can keep the number lock on all the time.
Going off topic, what I hate is the different keyboards you get in different countries - working out how to get an @ in some European countries, finding the A in a different location and so on. One hotel must have got fed up with guests asking about this and put instructions on their computer.
Going off topic, what I hate is the different keyboards you get in different countries - working out how to get an @ in some European countries, finding the A in a different location and so on. One hotel must have got fed up with guests asking about this and put instructions on their computer.
