And what it does is take away an important feature for those running InDesign on a laptop. And most people think it is something that only number crunching Excel geeks need.īut it’s not true. I agree that very few people understand what the function numbers do. (Boy have I looked stupid in a class when I had mine pressed by mistake.)īut to rip out the function numbers on the keyboard seems very ill advised. Now I agree that the num lock key actually causes more problems than it solves when graphic designers inadvertently press it. Wow, I know Apple wanted to make the Air sexy and light, but throwing out those function numbers seemed awfully silly.īut now I found out that ALL the new Macintosh laptops no longer have the function numbers as well as no num lock key. Well, imagine my shock to discover that the MacBook Air doesn’t have those function numbers. These function numbers allow you to enter the numbers as if there were a number pad on the laptop. If you look at the laptop keys j, k, l, u, i, o, etc., you will see tiny numbers and symbols to the right of the letters. They can not have dedicated keystrokes assigned using the numbers above the qwerty keys–only the number pad keys.īut as anyone who owns a laptop computer (not just Apple, Dell, Sony, HP, etc) knows, those machines don’t have number pad keys.
InDesign paragraph and character styles can have dedicated keystrokes assigned using the number pad keys (1, 2, 3, 4, etc).
Well, consider what I can do on my MacBook Pro which does have those alternate numbers and characters. Specifically, the “num lock” and alternate numbers and characters on the j, k, l, u, i, o, m, p. Recently a posting on the InDesign User to User forum mentioned that some of the funtions of the “fn” key were missing on the MacBook Air. Damn, those folks at Apple have no idea what they are doing in terms of graphic design software.
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