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Typing letters produces numbers
Hi,
My wife's computer just started giving her numbers instead of letters when she types on the right side of the keyboard. Windows XP Pro, Office 2003. Any ideas from any one on what might have happened? Is there some setting that got changed somehow? Thanks, Robert |
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Typing letters produces numbers
Hi Robert,
this sounds like your wife has a laptop? If she does, then Num Lock got accidentially activated and a part of the keyboard now serves as a numerical block like you'd have on the right of a normal desktop keyboard. To switch it off, take a close look at the top row of the laptop keyboard (the one that starts with ESC, F1, F2, etc) and all bottoms above it. Depending on the make of your laptop, somewhere there you should see (normally in a different color and smaller on the bottom of the keys) "NumLk", or "NumLock" (or something similar). Generally you have to press the Fn key (which is normally a special key left of the spacebar and next to Ctrl. it's often in the same color as the text in the F-row) and then the key that says NumLk. That should switch it off and solve your problem. I hope this helps. Patrick Schmid "Robert" wrote in message ... Hi, My wife's computer just started giving her numbers instead of letters when she types on the right side of the keyboard. Windows XP Pro, Office 2003. Any ideas from any one on what might have happened? Is there some setting that got changed somehow? Thanks, Robert |
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Typing letters produces numbers
Is this a notebook/laptop computer? If so, then there's probably a key
combination that toggles certain keys so that they have a number pad configuration. Check the documentation for the computer to see how to turn them off. If it's not a notebook/laptop or isn't some kind of compact keyboard that is supposed to use those keys as a number pad, then I would try a different keyboard. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Robert" wrote in message ... Hi, My wife's computer just started giving her numbers instead of letters when she types on the right side of the keyboard. Windows XP Pro, Office 2003. Any ideas from any one on what might have happened? Is there some setting that got changed somehow? Thanks, Robert |
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Typing letters produces numbers
Hi Patrick,
Problem solved and that was very perceptive of you to figure out that it's a laptop. Thanks for the help. I had actually tried the function buttons one after the other, but I didn't do the "number" button by itself. That was the ticket!!! Thanks, Robert "Patrick Schmid" wrote: Hi Robert, this sounds like your wife has a laptop? If she does, then Num Lock got accidentially activated and a part of the keyboard now serves as a numerical block like you'd have on the right of a normal desktop keyboard. To switch it off, take a close look at the top row of the laptop keyboard (the one that starts with ESC, F1, F2, etc) and all bottoms above it. Depending on the make of your laptop, somewhere there you should see (normally in a different color and smaller on the bottom of the keys) "NumLk", or "NumLock" (or something similar). Generally you have to press the Fn key (which is normally a special key left of the spacebar and next to Ctrl. it's often in the same color as the text in the F-row) and then the key that says NumLk. That should switch it off and solve your problem. I hope this helps. Patrick Schmid "Robert" wrote in message ... Hi, My wife's computer just started giving her numbers instead of letters when she types on the right side of the keyboard. Windows XP Pro, Office 2003. Any ideas from any one on what might have happened? Is there some setting that got changed somehow? Thanks, Robert |
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