Cant bind new numeric keyboard

I can't properly bind my new Numeric keypad to my Macbook Pro. Bluetooth works well and detects the new keyboard but at the time of identification doesn't read it. Asked me to touch the key to the side of uppercase but does not correspond to my new numeric Keyboard.

Shootist007, thank you for your reply. That didn't solve it but while in the Keyboard preferences I unchecked 'Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys' and that seems to have done the trick. That seems counter intuitive to me but hey, it works.

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