Ah! Will do when I get home. Thanks. Sonja -----Original Message----- From: Michael Lewis [mailto:mlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:23 To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: Buying a new laptop Sonja McShane: > I must admit, I do miss the numeric keypad. My laptop shows a numeric key= pa=3D > d as part of the main keyboard by having blue numbers under the relevant = ke=3D > ys. The numbers are supposed to work instead of the letters when you pres= s=20 =3D > the Funct key and then the character key (as far as I can tell). But I ca= n'=3D > t get it to work. Does anyone know how to make it work? (It's an Acer lap= to=3D > p.) Try the "Num Lock" key. Michael Lewis -------------------------------------- Brandle Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia www.brandle.com.au -------------------------------------- ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@freel= ists.org. To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@free= lists.org with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with = "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/aust= echwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@f= reelists.org ************************************************** ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************