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- The NUMBER PAD, NUM-LOCK AND SCROLL LOCK TOGGLES
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- The Number Pad on the right of your keyboard is heavily used with your
- cursor control arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, etc. You can also
- enter ASCII characters by holding down the Alt key and typing their
- decimal values on the Number Pad and then releasing the Alt key (if
- the Graphics Character Toggle is ON).
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- Since you may always type a number on the Number Pad by holding down
- the Shift key and then pressing the number you want on the pad, we
- decided to disable the standard NumLock toggle. We found that it was
- too easy to press it by mistake and then you would get a number in
- your text area every time you tried to move the cursor or go to the
- end of a line.
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- THE NumLock TOGGLE
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- However, if you REALLY want to turn it on, you can, by holding down
- both the Alt and Ctrl keys and then pressing the NumLock key. An "N"
- will appear on the Command Line in reverse color, the bell will sound,
- and you will be provided with a message stating:
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- Number Pad Enabled ... (Press NumLock to disable)
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- Try it. Now Press NumLock, and the "N" should disappear.
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- If you own a "key tronics" keyboard, this feature is of no advantage
- and will not function as you would expect. You may turn this "NumLock
- Override" feature off by going to the MODIFY DEFAULTS panel (F8-F2)
- selecting the "Toggle Settings" field, and turning the "NumLock
- Override" toggle "off". (See the HELP file "TOGGLES".)
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- Press the PgDn Key
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- THE Alt KEY AND THE NUMBER PAD
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- Normally on a PC, you may type any of the 255 ASCII characters by
- holding down the Alt key, typing the decimal value of the character on
- the Number Pad, and then releasing the Alt key.
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- PC-TYPE+, however, has a filter which does not permit non-standard
- characters to be entered in your text in this fashion. Consider that
- if you hold down the Alt key by mistake and press an arrow key, you
- will get an unwanted character in your text.
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- Note: this filter is not active on the Command Line.
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- Since you can get all the characters easily by pressing AltG to
- select, and then CtrlG to place the character in your text, this PC
- option is not really necessary. However, if you are used to entering
- characters in this fashion, you can with the help of the Scroll Lock
- Toggle.
- Press the PgDn Key
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- THE Scroll Lock TOGGLE
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- Make sure your cursor is in the text area and press the Scroll Lock
- key. You should see a "G" on your Command Line. The "G" stands for
- Graphic characters, and when it is displayed on the Command Line you
- can enter your characters with the Alt key and the Number Pad. For
- example, hold down the Alt key, and while holding it down, press the
- 2, the 5, and the 1 keys in succession on the Number Pad. Then
- release the Alt key. You should get the "√" to appear in your text.
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- Now press the Scroll Lock key again. The "G" will disappear from the
- Command Line, and if you repeat the process above, the entry will be
- ignored.
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- If you want the "G" to be "on" when you enter PC-TYPE+, you may make
- it so by turning the "Scroll Lock" toggle on in the "Toggle Settings"
- sub-screen of the MODIFY DEFAULTS screen.
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- Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu
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