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.
