Disabling default function keys

Hey everyone,
Long time mac user, just got a new Imac. Can't figure this one out.
On my new slim keyboard, F12 turns my audio all the way up. How can I bypass this? In Dreamweaver F12 is the "preview in browser" shortcut and that is a bigger priority to me than the volume control. I tried using the system prefs to assign F13 to this function. It shows up in the Dreamweaver menu, but it doesn't work. Any help is appreciated.

Yup - go to Keyboard & Mouse, but NOT to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Use the Keyboard tab instead. Check the "Use all F1... etc as standard function keys" so you get the F keys to ignore their special functions and become available for other assignments.
As the pref pane notes, pressing the Fn key and an F key will then let you get to the special functions of those keys.
What it doesn't note is that Fn will reverse the checkbox setting. So, you can leave it unchecked and the Fn key + F key will release the F keys from their printed functions and make them available for other uses.
Of course, with QuicKeys, you'll want "empty" F keys to start with, so you'll want the box checked. (this is something we've been dealing with on laptops for awhile, it's only an issue for more users now that the newest standard keyboards behave this way.)

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