Cursor Pointer not moving via KeyPad

All of a sudden my touchpad isn't working. My cursor won't move using it. Even the 2 buttons on it won't work either. I don't have a button that turns it on and off like my last computer so I have no idea why it did this all of a sudden.
Any ideas on how to get it to work again? I had to dig out my mouse which works thank goodness.
Thanks!
Heather
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I was having this same issue on a Windows 8 Toshiba Satellite laptop. I noticed that the F5 key had a picture of a touchpad and a touchpad with a slash through it. I had accidentally pressed that! It turns off your touchpad. I pressed it again and it was working again.

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