Do any of the buttons act as an "ESC" key? I present from Excel and would like to click "into" a cell, but I'd need to hit "ESC" to leave edit mode.
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Cant you can use arrows to exit the cell? Also if you edit a cell, you have to use keyboard, and so you have the ESC.
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Wow, thanks for the post. For me less buttons is good. LOL. I may have to start saving for this one. Can you give another quick comment on how easy it is to use?Thanks a lot Thomas.Lamar
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I saw this question which is one I had as well. I couldn't find a satisfactory answer elsewhere so I did some tests on a recently purchased Mac version of the keyboard. I connected the Mac version to a Win7 laptop. 1. Where the typical insert key resides (mid-right, next to "Home" and above "Delete"), the key is labeled disk eject. Even though the button is in the same spot as a Windows insert key, it does NOT perform the insert function in Windows. However, the long "0" button on the numeric keypad performs insert as it would on a PC keyboard. Num-lock just has to be disabled. 2. There is no num-lock light. The "clear" key performs num lock, but you don't get an LED to let you know it is enabled. There is only a blue caps lock indicator light. 3. There is no scroll-lock function and no Pause/Break. Where the scroll-lock and Pause/Break keys are located, these are brightness adjust keys for the Mac. Neither key performs its PC keyboard equivalent. So this also means you cannot hit "Ctrl-Pause/Break" to interrupt a process like you can on a standard PC keyboard. 4. If you use the "Print Screen" key in Windows to take screenshots (I do Alt-PrtScr a lot), hopefully there is a way to remap it because the Print Screen key has been replaced by an F13 key and it doesn't do the Print Screen screen grab function in Windows. These answers assume you are just plugging a Mac Das Keyboard straight into a Windows 7 PC with no tweaks. I haven't researched if there's a way to remap keys in Windows to regain the omitted functionality.
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It kind of looks like one big button but this is a two button mouse. I've used it on both Macs and Windows PCs. You get the "right-click" behavior without using the control key.
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I believe you are in luck. I don't use that key much so I took my keyboard out and experimented. The key has a square on it. I typed in Pages and then pressed it. It took me out of the program and onto the screen which has my Pages icon. Looks like an Esc key to me!
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I am not a gamer or power user. There are 6 profiles and you can program any button to go to a specific profile to jump between setups. I use the MACRO function to define a single key for each button, in most cases. You can also make any button a fire key, 3 5 or user defined number of times. You can set up complex key combinations as macros, as well as single keys. Good luck, I can't imagine not being able to do any function you want from the various buttons.
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I'm on a Mac, using ControllerMate. I've been able to reprogram all the buttons. This includes the ring finger button, which I use as a shifter to modify the other buttons, but can also work as a regular macro button. With ControllerMate, it is also possible to reprogram the scroll wheel of any mouse. I am also using the center top buttons (G7 and G8). I've programmed one to toggle videos from windowed to fullscreen, and I set the other one up as an Esc key.
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The same switch-button that is used to select the speed is also the eject button when it is pushed. This could be an issue for some people since one might push down on the button in the process of selecting a speed. I haven't had any problem with it, however...
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On 10.9.4 it worked out of the box for Power Point 14.43 (from Office 2011 for Mac) with the exception of the play button. The play button sends two keys, alternating between F5 and ESC. Since the ESC is usually used to exit a presentation it may be best to map the two key presses via Keyboard Preferences. The remote itself is very nice. Fwd, back, blank screen, timer, green laser, all work very nicely.
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It does actually-at the very top left. Not sure if that works on any PC though. Fn+click works as right-click. Although it works well on computers, it's intended for Google TV, so that's the reason it's not quite your standard keyboard.
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Mine is an older model and doesn't have function keys per se--there may be command pairs that get you there with control , alt or the command keys I'm not sure. The bigger problem with the iPad formatting with corporate sites is that the screen is small that I can't always use corporate technology interfaces.
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Yes. Use the Fn key in combo with the arrow keys. &lt;Fn + Left&gt; = Home &lt;Fn + Right&gt; = End &lt;Fn + Up&gt; = Page Up &lt;Fn + Down&gt; = Page Down ...good question. I more-or-less stumbled across that lol (actually, I think it's pretty standard for smaller laptops with keyboards sans those keys, but I'd long ago forgotten).
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Sorry for the dealy in answering you on this. I don't know that you can; I haven't tried. Looking at the control panel and mouse I didn't see a spot for changing the esc button.
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I hate this feature...forgot to mention it in the review. You have to press the function key (FN) then "l" for the apostrophe. Any key that has a blue character requires you to press the function key first.
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The shortcut keys should be the same as a PC except the apple key which is like the windows icon key on a pc. Also this keyboard has an eject key for mac where a normal board does not. That being said... ctr + C key is the shortcut for copy ctr + V is paste. Hold the ctr key + left click items you want to select for multiple things or to save time with many items ctr + A is select all. Then hold ctr + items to deselect. When all the items are blued right click on them and a menu will pop out with choices like copy and paste etc etc. Google key board short cuts and there are many many more too many for me to list here.
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The side buttons do not work out of the box. However, in the Systems Preferences>Accessibility>Switch Control side bar>Switches tab, there are 4 built in system commands: Restart from top, Select item, Move to next item, Stop scanning, as well as executing Apple scripts when a side button is pressed. If you want more commands or don't know how to program in Apple script, I recommend downloading BetterTouchTool (Free). You can bind the side button to any keyboard shortcut. In my case, I bind them to command-[ and command-], which is the command for back a page, forward a page respectively for almost all apps (Chrome, Safari, Finder etc.) The side buttons do not work out of the box. However, in the Systems Preferences>Accessibility>Switch Control side bar>Switches tab, there are 4 built in system commands: Restart from top, Select item, Move to next item, Stop scanning, as well as executing Apple scripts when a side button is pressed. If you want more commands or don't know how to program in Apple script, I recommend downloading BetterTouchTool (Free). You can bind the side button to any keyboard shortcut. In my case, I bind them to command-[ and command-], which is the command for back a page, forward a page... » Read More The side buttons do not work out of the box. However, in the Systems Preferences>Accessibility>Switch Control side bar>Switches tab, there are 4 built in system commands: Restart from top, Select item, Move to next item, Stop scanning, as well as executing Apple scripts when a side button is pressed. If you want more commands or don't know how to program in Apple script, I recommend downloading BetterTouchTool (Free). You can bind the side button to any keyboard shortcut. In my case, I bind them to command-[ and command-], which is the command for back a page, forward a page respectively for almost all apps (Chrome, Safari, Finder etc.) « Show Less
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There is a home/escape button in the top left number key row. I really love this keyboard and would recommend it.