Hi.
Some of you may find the sharp keys application useful.
If you would rather just download it directly from my dropbox,
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1586962/sharp%20keys.zip
but you can find it on the web by googling it if you'd rather not grab a
file sent from someone else.
sharp keys allows you to re map most keys to be other keys. For instance
my Lenovo Yoga 2 pro uses fn and page down key for the insert key. I
re-mapped my pause break key I believe it was, to be insert, and insert
to be pause break or some such as that. This worked out perfectly
because the pause key or what ever I made it, is the key to the left of
my delete key, lol. Also a lot of laptops these days use what they often
call action keys, these take the function keys f1 etc and make them do
other actions by default when you just press the button. For instance
pressing f5 may turn down the speaker volume, f4 may increase
brightness. Use FN to get the original behavior, to actually press f5,
or f4 etc. On some, the insert key may do some other function and only
be insert if you hold down fn, just like with the function keys. For
those computers, some allow you to change the default behavior so that
you have to hold down fn to get them to be action keys, pressing
without fn just leaves them as regular function keys. Generally this is
done in the system bios.
Note that re-mapping keys with sharp keys will mess up external
keyboards. For instance if you don't like where delete is on the laptop,
so you make the right bracket key your delete key and your delete key
your right bracket key, that'll be all messed up on a different keyboard
with normal layout. Stands to reason it is not keyboard specific. Also
note that sharp keys modifies your registry, it can be uninstalled after
you finish modifying your keys or deleted (if you use the portable
version). There is no third party application that has to be running for
the re-mapping to be in affect.
Cheers, Sent with Thunderbird 31.3.0 portable
On 5/9/2015 9:49 AM, Ariannau wrote:
My laptop has no applications key, so I have to press shift f10 instead!
Arianna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Boyd" <mike....@comcast.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] No insert key on my new laptop keyboard
That''s right. If you set JAWS to the laptop keyboard layout, the
caps Lock does function as the JaAWS and Insert keys. Great.
Mike
mike....@comcast.net
-----Original Message----- From: Tom
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 5:22 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] No insert key on my new laptop keyboard
check in the help menu, laptop keystrokes. I use the cap loc ket as my
insert key
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Boyd
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 5:09 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] No insert key on my new laptop keyboard
Sounds to me like it may be time for a wireless keyboard with all of the
keys on it. That's what I use and its great. I have one from Logitech
and
one from hp.
Mike
mike....@comcast.net
-----Original Message----- From: Kimber Gardner
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 1:02 AM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] No insert key on my new laptop keyboard
There's no dedicated numpad on this keyboard either. <g>
On 5/9/15, Mike Boyd <mike....@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi Kimber,
The number pad key 0, which you know as the JAWS key when the Num
Lock is
turned off, also serves as the insert key. Therefore, the JAWS and the
Insert key are one in the same.
Mike
mike....@comcast.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimber Gardner
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 12:04 AM
To: jaws-users-list
Subject: [JAWS-Users] No insert key on my new laptop keyboard
Hey All,
I just got a new laptop and there is no insert key on the keyboard. It
has been replaced by a double-sized delete key.
I use the caps lock for my jaws key so that's not the problem. But is
there some key combination I can utilize to invoke insert mode?
And who the heck thought this new keyboard design was a good idea? Why
do I need a double sized delete key anyway? Sheesh!
All suggestions welcome. I'm stuck with this laptop for reasons I
won't go into. Nor is an external keyboard the solution I would
choose. Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Kimber
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