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No NumLock key? Problem solved! Here’s the fix.

Posted on May 22, 2023 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

PUBLIC DEFENDER

By Brian Livingston

Most laptop makers are now leaving the NumLock key out of their smaller notebooks.

That’s a disaster for people who’ve been getting symbols that aren’t on their keyboard by entering Alt+number — for instance, typing Alt+0169 on the numeric keypad to get the copyright sign (©).

Some laptops have a function key for a “hidden” numeric keypad. But I’ll show you much easier ways. Read this today, and you’ll be writing documents faster — mañana!

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.21.0, 2023-05-22).

Public Defender Keyboard remapping, Keyboards, Newsletters, NumLock, TenKeyLess, Windows

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