The Key(s) of F

[beamjockey]

I just realized that, although I use a Windows machine every business day, I never touch the function keys. I mean the ones labeled F1 through F12, above the number row on the QWERTY part of the keyboard.

I don't even know what the F#-keys do, though I am perfectly capable of finding out.

To me, the most significance they have is that the number keys and the F#-keys form a nice little trough I keep a pencil in.

In the past, I have been a power user on Macs and on VT220 keyboards. Just never bothered, I guess, to figure out the possibilities on a Windows keyboard.

What's your favorite F# key?

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[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I don't think I used them any more either, not for years, though I have a laptop pc.

I do use the alt and ctrl keys a lot though, with the alpha keys and with the numeric pad.

I think ... I used the Fkeys way back in the DOS days in documents that I was creating in the frequently lamented word processing program, what was it called? Word Perfect! I wrote my second novel in it (first one was written on my home IBM Selectric, but during the day worked on the text at work in a law firm on an IBM mag card word processor).

This last book even has excel spread sheets as part of keeping track of everything that's in it.

Love, C.