Dec 06, 2020 If you plan on using your MacBook Pro for long stretches, I recommend picking up the Logitech K380, because typing on it is much more comfortable and easy—and it features a number pad, which makes.
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- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012 - 2015) MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012 - 2015) MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015–2017).
- I recently upgraded from an old 15-inch MacBook Pro to a new unibody MacBook Pro. I love my new laptop but miss being able to press the Fn key and use the J, K, L, U, I, O, 7, 8, 9 keys for a.
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You can't necessarily get it by pressing and holding the fn key. For instance, this works on my first-gen Macbook (which, actually has a true numlock feature as well) but it definitely does not work on my first-gen (3 battery) wireless aluminum keyboard.
fn certainly doesn't work on my black MacBook (the last version before they went to the unibodies).
Also thought I should add a rather obvious safety tip:
Before using this for something sensitive (like a credit card number), keep in mind the fact that this will be stored right in your clipboard until you copy something else, and until you restart if you have any kind of a clipboard manager.
The fn-key works on all Macbooks as far as I know, but it relies on the installation of KeyRemap4Macbook. Get it, it's an excellent piece of software!
Thanks for this suggestion. This donation ware product worked out of the box. I've missed this feature for the at least two years since I replaced my G4 laptop.
And the program has many other options which I've yet to explore.
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You can't necessarily get it by pressing and holding the fn key. For instance, this works on my first-gen Macbook (which, actually has a true numlock feature as well) but it definitely does not work on my first-gen (3 battery) wireless aluminum keyboard.
fn certainly doesn't work on my black MacBook (the last version before they went to the unibodies).
Also thought I should add a rather obvious safety tip:
Before using this for something sensitive (like a credit card number), keep in mind the fact that this will be stored right in your clipboard until you copy something else, and until you restart if you have any kind of a clipboard manager.
The fn-key works on all Macbooks as far as I know, but it relies on the installation of KeyRemap4Macbook. Get it, it's an excellent piece of software!
Thanks for this suggestion. This donation ware product worked out of the box. I've missed this feature for the at least two years since I replaced my G4 laptop.
And the program has many other options which I've yet to explore.
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I believe there is a simpler and more effective solution than using an Applescript and then copy and paste.
Using a free utility like Ukelele, one can easily create a new keyboard layout - call it 'Numeric', and make it the way you want it - just decide what the output of each required key in keyboard should be.
Place this in ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts.
Then activate the 'Show keyboard and character viewer in menu bar' in System Preferences->Keyboard.
No, after you log out and back in, you have almost the equivalent of the old 'num lock' key: just go to the menu bar and switch back and forth between the normal and the numeric keyboard. The numeric keyboard will be an actual keyboard, entering content directly into any application you want, not a middleman script followed by copy and paste.
Chances are a good enough keyboard layout may exist already.
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I have tried my own proposed 'solution' and:
1) there is no need to logout and login - the new keyboard layout is immediately available under System Preferences->Language & Text
2) it works :-)
I use QuicKeys to re-map keys to behave just like the former good ol' embedded numeric keypad. No switching contexts or any other complications; it 'just works.' However, QuicKeys (or any other command-key assignment utility) cannot incorporate the fn key as a modifier; there's something funky about the fn key technically (it was once explained to me by a shareware programmer, but I've forgotten the details). So I just use the Ctrl key; it's easy to adjust to it in short order. (If you orient yourself by resting your pinky on the fn key, your ring finger naturally is where it needs to be for the Ctrl key.) There's probably a way also to duplicate the NumLock key functionality with QuicKeys (involving some multi-step macro with if-then dependencies), but I haven't ever needed it, so I never tried constructing one.
I had an old G5 imac that went belly-up. Rather than try to repair it (and since the future was all intel), I purchased a new intel imac. I noticed that the new system had no number pad on the keyboard. So, I hooked up the old keyboard to the new imac.
Guess what? It works, and I now have a number pad on an intel imac. I realize that this solution may not work for everyone, but if you have an old keyboard, you may want to give it a try .
Any tips of how to go about with that? I tried to create any type of shortcut key, but since I couldn't find any command for or way to reference the NumPad numbers, I wasn't able to.