John at myITforum.com

Mostly gadgets, but I'll occassionally get sidetracked...

On Screen Keyboard

Interesting utility, and didn’t know it was there.  I was reviewing an Excel spreadsheet, and couldn’t navigate correctly.  I glanced down in the status area, and noticed that “Scroll Lock” was on.  I looked all over my keyboard on my HP 6910 and couldn’t find a key marked Scroll Lock.  So, I went and looked at several of my home desktops and all of the keyboards had a key marked Scroll Lock.  So, how do you turn off Scroll Lock when you don’t have a Scroll Lock button on your keyboard?

What to do?  I used the On Screen Keyboard feature.  Go to Start, Run, type OSK, hit enter. After a few seconds, an On Screen keyboard appeared showing me, of all things, a full featured keyboard with all the special keys, including slk (Scroll Lock).  It was highlighted, so I clicked it to turn it off and how about that, Scroll Lock turned off.

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