Function key missingMay I ask you for a solution for th for mirror displays

May I ask you for a solution for the following problem.
I have recently switched from a Powerbook G4 15 inch to a MacBook Pro 15 inch.
I often give presentations in large lecture halls where the beamer is controlled by a technician not immediately accessible. What happens is that I start up my laptop and the main screen appears on the beamer, which is not yet switched on to be seen on the big screen. All I get on my laptop is the empty secondary screen. On my Powerbook G4 there was a function key, which allowed me to immediately mirror the displays (synchronize the monitors), which instantly solved the problem and gave me control to start my presentation. The technician controlling the beamer would then start showing the beamer to the audience when my first slide had appeared.
On my MacBook Pro this function key is gone. The following situation happened: I again got the empty screen on my laptop at the lectern and the beamer was not yet shown to the public so I had no way to get command over my computer. The technician was not reachable by me and was patiently waiting for me to start my presentation which of course I could not do. This is an embarrassing situation due to the fact that the necessary function key is no longer available.
I tried to create a keyboard shortcut function to mirror the displays but I failed. I urgently need your advice.

Both Kappy and drsailer are really trying to help.
The top row (function keys) is identical on US and German keyboards (Swiss German in my case) and the F7 key has been assigned a new function in all models released after February 2008 (a tribute to gamers and leisure users ostensibly).
In analogy, the respective entries have been deleted from the help files. So it all makes sense except that this treasured function is no longer available for the few people like me using the laptop predominantly for lectures in ever changing surroundings and situations.
The situation I am talking about, is when you get to a lectern and start your computer up once you are there. Work arounds like having it in standby with the first slide mounted exist, but you have to think of it and prepare it in advance. Of course you can disconnect it from the beamer cable at the lectern and get the control back, start up the slide and connect it again. The first time you are in such a predicament you will most liekely not be cold blooded enough to think about that. Even if you are it is utterly uncool if you have to fiddle around before your presentation starts.
It is not the end of the world but it should be easy for the Apple people to write a little modification to assign a key or a combination of keys to replace the abandoned F7 function key for "mirror displays".
In fact, it is therotecially possible to assign keys to all the menu functions (mirror displays is still retained as a menu function once you activate it) but you are asked to type the exact wording of the menu function. I tried a variety of German and Englisch wordings to no avail. The wordings are different if you pull down the menu under the display ikon or if you check in system preferences under displays. Here the German system may in fact be the conundrum.
If somebody lets me know the exact English wording in these 2 places in the English system, I can check, if I missed something there in my attempts.

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