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 <jpanar...@gmail.com> 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, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website,http://www.macfortheblind.com > Twitter, @macfortheblind > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
