On the Dell D600 keyboard a key's alternate function is labeled in blue italic font. But I couldn't figure out how to unstick it. ) I figured out that by holding the function key (the key with "Fn" in blue letters below the "Z" key) and pressing the affected letter temporarily corrected the issue and I thought somehow that the function key was stuck. I guess I hadn't done any more work thereafter and just shut down.īooting up a few days later I found that most of the letters I typed with my right hand "UIOP" and "JKL " were coming out numbers. Do not press the "Fn" key+ "Num Lk" on the Dell.Ī few days ago I had tried to see if I could temporarily dim the monitor on the laptop to save energy and had tried a number of the function key combinations and never figured it out. On the Dell laptop the numeric keypad mode can be easily toggled on and off simply by pressing the (white lettered) " Num Lk" key (above " F11"). Refer to the section titled "Other Manufacturers" at the bottom of this posting.īecause laptops do not physically have room for a separate numeric keypad, many laptop manufacturers allow the right-hand keys to be temporarily re-mapped to a numeric keypad layout so that people with good calculator / numeric keypad touch typing skills can more easily input numbers. On a Dell D600 simply pressing the key labeled " Num Lk" (above the " F11" key) will return the keyboard to its normal function.įor other laptops there are a variety of key combinations.
You think "I got some weird bug or my keyboard is broken".īy pressing a key such as "Num Lk" or a combination of other keys (see below) you can return the keyboard to its normal function.
This persists even after you log off and on again. Your laptop keyboard is stuck in "numeric keypad" mode. This was such a pain to figure out for a problem with such an obvious solution.
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