New Keyboard

I don't know if this is the most appropriate place to post this, since most threads are about problems people are having. But I just got my new MacPro, and I have to say that I really LOVE the new keyboard. I was dreading the new design, thinking I would dislike it as much as I do most laptop keyboards. I figured I would just stick with my old keyboard and pack the new one away. Boy was I surprised. Good job, Apple! I can now type like the wind. If only I had something to say.

I like the new keyboard, too, but why in the world did they move the volume controls to F10-12? Why didn't they keep it above the number pad? What in the world would I otherwise use F16 - F19 for??? Is there anyway to change this? But even if there is, I would have to remember which key is which as they won't have the visual identifier on the keys.

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Function keys no longer working with a new keyboard...

I got a new keyboard and my function keys no longer work with it. I am used to have them used in the standard format, i.e. F10-F12 control the voume, etc. I have the "Use all f1,f2, etc." button clicked. I have also tried restarting my computer. Any thoughts?

Try doing a SMC reset and PRAM reset.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

Macbook pro 15" mid 2010 i spilled water on keyboard now it wont power on if the battery is connected and the keys on keyboard doesnt work it works fine with no battery and external keyboard if i order a battery and new keyboard will every else work again

macbook pro 15" mid 2010 i spilled water on keyboard now it wont power on if the battery is connected and the keys on keyboard doesnt work it works fine with no battery and external keyboard if i order a battery and new keyboard will every else work again lik it did before

If you have records that show that you've taken your MacBook Pro in for a year to fix the machine, I would escalate the problem to Apple Customer Relations - unfortunately I don't have a number for Spain.
It would only seem logical to me that if you've been trying to have the machine repaired during the time that the 'recall' was in effect that you should be eligible for a new logic board. But only customer relations will be able to make that call.
Good luck - take the issue as high up the food chain as you can and see what happens.
Clinton

New keyboard shortcut didn't work; neither did resetting default

I wanted to create a new keyboard shortcut for sending mail, so I used the system prefs pane like the help file said (new application shortcut, select mail, etc). After creating my new shortcut (^X), it initially didn't appear in the Message menu for Mail. I quit Mail and restarted, and voila - but hitting ^X didn't send my message. That's annoying.
So I figured I'd set the shortcut back, and hit the Restore Default button in the keyboard shortcuts preferences. The listing for the shortcut I created disappeared from the menu, but even after quitting Mail several times, and restarting the machine, Menu - Send still lists ^X as its shortcut. Which would be fine with me, but it still doesn't send my message when I hit ^X.
My shortcut doesn't work, and resetting the defaults doesn't seem to be resetting what Mail thinks the shortcut is. Any thoughts? I'm on OSX 10.4.7, Mail is 2.1.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

lucke wrote:Perhaps you did some bad things to your grub config while playing with the new kernel?
No, I did the changes temporarily, but none perminant.
lucke wrote:Tried booting with kernel26-fallback.img?
Not yet, I think I will do that tomarrow.
lucke wrote:How did you play with the new kernel? Using ABS or using classic "make menuconfig && make && make install"? How did the recompilation fail?
I used the wiki to compile it with ABS. It failed because I forgot to set it to be able to read EXT partitions, which it is located on.

Mac Pro stuck on gray screen after installing software for a new keyboard

I am having a huge issue with my very important work computer! For a few weeks, my Mac has been freezing on the gray screen during start up. Since I had two external hard drives plugged in, I would unplug one of them and the Mac would always restart correctly once one was unplugged. Well today I was installing software for a new keyboard and the mac prompted me to restart. Once I restarted, the gray screen came up again and no matter what I did it would not start up correctly again. I tried unplugging everything except the keyboard and monitor and nothing works. I tried ejecting the crash-causing CD with the keyboard using all of the commands I found on this forum board and nothing worked. I saw forums about manually ejecting the CD by pushing a pin-hole but I cannot find that pinhole anywhere! Then again, the CD might not even be the problem but since the computer gave me the gray screen of death right after using the CD I am thinking that it is the problem. I use this computer for editing a TV show and creating websites so there is a ton of files on it and I need to get it up and running again ASAP. Any suggestions would be appreciated and I am sure by now you can tell that I am not a Mac expert so please dumb it down for me. Thank you!!

I would start by breaking your thoughts and sentences out from one long paragraph.
Start at the basics.
Always have backups.
One at least that is a spare boot system you can use.
Clone your system. SuperDuper does a great job for only $29
Boot from another hard drive or last OS X DVD
Repair your drive with Apple Disk Utility along with 3rd party disk maintenance and repair
Hold Option key until the boot manager, then hold mouse to open optical drive.
You can hold mouse on startup and it will eject also.
Hold and continue to hold Shift key during startup to repair the boot drive in minimal fashion.
What device and driver? hint: never use CD, just go online as the CD is usually out of date anyway.
Fill in Mac OS X version and more about hardware would help in posts and in your profile signature.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/index.html#d12aug2010
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior

Setting a new keyboard shortcut

I am trying to set a new keyboard shortcut. I named my New Set, chosen the Product Area, chosen the Command and tabbed to the New Shortcut window. When I try to type in the New shortcut, I can only get 1 letter typed in and then that shortcut pops up(if I try to type Ctrl, as soon as I type C I get a message C copy). Any ideas?
Thanks

Function assigned was swash
Product Area:Panel Menu
Commands:Character: Open type (swash)
Shortcut is Shift+Ctrl+Alt+M
as I follow in the lesson, using the type tool, the N is highlighted and then the keyboard shortcut is used and the N then has some added curlyques at the beginnig and at the end of the letter.
When I try, it deletes the N and gives the green sign (looks like the symbol for non-joiner with a period beneath it). Not sure why I would get this symbol when I try to insert a swash.
Vaune

I had to buy a new keyboard but F10, F11 & F12 don't work for the volume. What can I do to activate it?

I had to buy a new keyboard but F10, F11 & F12 don't work for the volume. What can I do to activate it?

Hello,
I think Spark cured this for another person and the same problem...
http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php

Old imac needs a new keyboard!

I have the old imac-- PowerPC G4 running on Mac Os X version 10.4.11.
I need a new keyboard, but don't necessarily want to upgrade the software to 10.5.... any suggestions? Or do I need to upgrade? Also, what would I need to get to upgrade? This is where things get very confusing to me! This desktop is my secondary Mac, but would still like to use it without putting a lot of money into it!!
Thanks!!

You can use any keyboard but not the latest Apple aluminum ones. If you want one of thoseyou need to upgrade to 10.5. Leopard, but you would need to buy a retail disc to do it.

Apple's new keyboard...

We have a new machine in today and the person who got it hates the new keyboard.
So far I kind of like it, but I'm concerned if it will be fully functional under Tiger (10.4.11).
The Eject key works, yet when I hit the volume key(F12) it triggers eject instead.
No help in System preferences. Is this an OS thing and I won't be able to use this new keyboard on Tiger?
Thanks for any suggestions.
-Vincent

If you are talking about the new flat Aluminum keyboard, I've been using it in Tiger since it came out. It is a dramatic improvement over the previous one...for me. The previous white Apple Keyboard was horrible.
But that's a personal thing. People who believe that the traditional IBM-type keyboard is the ultimate will have a natural and maybe unfair hatred of anything else. But over the years I have been typing more and more on the low, scissor-key laptop keyboards like the PowerBook/MacBook Pro, and now prefer that. And that's why I like the new, quiet low-profile keyboard so much.
As far as why the volume key ejects, have you checked the keyboard layout setting? It sounds like a case where it's using the keyboard mapping of a different language. If you see a country flag in the menu bar, make sure it's the right country. If there is no flag in the menu bar, go into International preferences and check Languages and Input Menu.

Where can I get a new keyboard for my Tecra A3 in the UK?

I spilt some water - damn! - a couple of days ago on my Tecra A3 and I think it is beyond fixing, though please correct me if I am wrong.
I haven't been cleaning it regularly and I think there was probably quite a bit of dust - and other foreign matter - under the keys and I think some dust has got, via the water, into the electronics connecting the keys to the white connecting tissue - I don't know what you call this - which links the keyboard to the rest of the machine.
Most of the keys aren't working, and some of them, whey they work, add in for free, for one tap, extra letters.
I removed the keyboard, and left it and the machine to dry and, when that didn't do the trick, dried the keyboard and surrounding parts thorougly - working delicately - and cleaned it using a tiny bit of alcohol and ear cotton wool cleaners. I also used a little air pressure producing machine to try to get rid of any dust. I think I did a fair job but It is still not working.
I think I will have to buy a new keyboard. Do you know where can I get a new keyboard A3 in the UK or a second hand keyboard that would be in perfectly good working order?
Thanking you in advance,
Conor Joyce

Hi
On the Toshiba website you can search for the nearest authorized service provider. They sell all original Toshiba spare parts. Call them and ask for a new keyboard, they can order a new one for you.
Here you can search for the nearest ASP:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Find an authorized service provider
Second hands you get from eBay for example but normally keyboards are not so expensive so I would buy a new one.

Satellite M300 - Where can I buy a new keyboard?

My keyboard was broken. Now I want to buy a new key board for this model to replacement but I can't find where to buy it.
Please help me!
This is the pictures of this model with black glossy keyboard.
http://imall.ntu.edu.sg/pic/Toshiba%20Satellite%20M300-1.jpg
http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/471303.jpg

Hi
This is pretty easy. You must only contact an authorized service provider and ask for a new keyboard.
They can order all original Toshiba spare parts and exchange the keyboard for you.
On the Toshiba website you can search for the nearest ASP:
Check this!!
Bye

New keyboard, t410

Hi. I had a SMALL coffee spill on the T410 a week ago. Mouse button-behavior has been a litle unpredictable ever since, both on the keyboard itself (all four touchpad buttons are a little off, with the right-click buttons being the most inconsistent). Plugging in a USB mouse is better, but that still is not perfect. Weirdly, clicking on some things (links in Chrome browser, for instance) usually works, while clicking on other things (Chrome browser tabs, for instance) often does not work. Very unpredictable, though.
I'm going to try replacing the keyboard to see if that might fix the problem. Two questions: (1) Do you think that might fix the problem? (2) How on earth can I order a new keyboard from Lenovo--all the multiple help/ordering/parts/replacement pages and stuff on the website are oddly unclear on where/who I can simply call to order this replacement part. Any help there would be appreciated.
THANKS

dutchg,
the keyboard and touchpad is separated thus if you were to change, I would advice to check the TouchPad first.
You mentioned that the 4 buttons on the touchpad are off? I don't remember having 4 buttons on the touchpad. There are only 3 physical buttons right?
If you want to replace the touchpad, contact support and they would advice you on how to do so.
*Non Lenovo employee*
I have a Y2P (i5) ... Feel free to ping me if you want me to test some applications with your Y2P if you have the same model. I don't mind keep doing recovery on it if needed .... =)

New Keyboard Shortcuts in Word 2010 NOT SAVING

I am unable to save new keyboard shortcuts to Word 2010. The ones that come with the program work like CTRL B for bold, etc., but when I try to create new ones, they'll work while I'm in Word, but when I try to close it for the day, it tells me that
there is a copy already open and it doesn't allow me to save to the Normal template. When I try to save to a different template, the keyboard shortcuts I created do not work. There has GOT to be a patch or workaround for this. I am working
on a small network, fyi. Thanks so much.

Hi,
I have noticed that you have replied in a similar thread. Do you have the third party programs which mentioned there?
And then based on my test, please try the following steps:
Exit Word 2010> Rename the Normal.dot (Path: C:\Users\uesrname\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates) >Restart Word.
Create the new keyboard shortcuts ,assign to the command and choose Normal to save.
If it still not works, please give me the whole error message during your saving.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

I had to get a new keyboard and now the keys in the upper row are not working appropriately. How can I fix this problem?

My keyboard stopped working so I went to the apple store to replace it with another one. Now I am back home and the keys at the very top are not working correctly (volumn F12 shows the dashboard, F11 takes the screen up and away, F8 pause button shows spaces, etc.). What should I do to correct this problem - I assume I probably need to download some type of softwear but what? I have a Mac OS X Version 10.5.8 desktop - 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

All new keyboards need Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and above for full functionality.
Rather short-sighted of Apple perhaps, but that seems to be a trend these days.
I'm afraid the only fix is to upgrade to SL. Personaly, I'd take it back and get a refund and seek an older keyboard or a third-party one elsewhere.

Got a new keyboard and can't get dashboard hot-key to work

Hi. I have a 24" IMac from Dec 2007 and I'm running Lion.
Yesterday, I had to replace my keyboard. I got a new one at the Apple Store near me.
The new keyboard seems to be the same, except the F4 function key is different. In my previous keyboard, the F4 function key had a little icon for the Dashboard.
On the new keyboard, there is a different icon and I'm not sure what it's of.
Anyway, I opened the Mission Control preferences (from System Preferences) and F4 is assigned to Show Dashboard.
However, when I hit F4, nothing happens at all. The Dashboard only shows up when hiy Fn-F4.
So, is there any way to get the Dashboard to open when I hit just F4?
Thanks!

I am using photoshop CS6, but I was also running CS6 on my last iMac and
the contact sheet worked with no problem. I can get contact sheet to work
through Bridge but not photoshop, it's very frustrating.
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Connecting a new keyboard to a notebook

Several keys on my HP 71-340US Notebook ave locked up so I purchased a new keyboard. How do I replace the old keyboard with the new one? Is there a site online that shows how to do it? Should I take it to a computer store and have them do it or try it myself? Help!!!

Hi,
I can't find HP 71-something but HP G71-something. The following manual is for G71. It will show you how to replace the keyboard (from page #60). Hope you bought the right one too:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01713747.pdf
Regards.
BH
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