Newish metal keyboard with a cap problem

I have a problem with my keyboard.
The cap key will only work sometimes - the light only comes on 50% of the time.
I took it to my local apple shop, who after checking,told me it was the key needs to be hit in the centre!
this doesnt seem right...?

I've had my aluminum keyboard for 20 days...."caps key" began unresponsiveness intermittently about three days ago...went to Apple Chat....agent referred me to Apple article that suggested disconnecting and reconnecting keyboard USB...did that, and even reconnected in different USB port. That fixed the unresponsiveness....for about 4 minutes....."caps lock" key is now back to intermittent responsiveness...regardless of WHERE or how hard I tap "caps lock" key...even blew air into key...no help.

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Hi,
I have a Mac Mini macOS 10.5.8
I just bought an apple USB keyboard with numerci keypad (aluminium) and am having problems
1/ If i hit @ i get <
2/ if i hit < i get @
3/ the function keys do not work : if i hit fn F11 it displays the desktop (as F11 does also), i was expecting lower volume
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If i look at the Keyboard Visualizer (top right) it displays a keyboard that does NOT look like mine, it is smaller.
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ok thanks for the tip and yes i admit i didn't see that...
but it seems a little weird to have to upgrade all the OS to Snow Leopard just to use a keyboard.
That kind of new device should be configured through a driver to download...shouldn't it ?
I presume there's no keyboard driver that can solve my problem.. ?
so you confirm that if i pay for Snow Leopard and upgrade my OS, my keyword will definitely work correctly with my Mac Mini ?
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So anyway, I plug in the IBM keyboard and neither the trackpoint nor touchpad are working. I tried to load the software which came with the keyboard and recieved an error that the software is not recognized by my current operating system.
I suppose I could purchase a seperate number pad, but I REALLY do not want to do that. I prefer having the number pad built into the keyboard.
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no arguments there. i definitely miss having an integrated number pad. the canon calculator can switch from numpad to calc functions though, making it a rather useful alternative.
anyway, the keyboards are made by lite-on and use a combination of lite-on, synaptics, and IBM/lenovo hotkey drivers. if you don't have luck with the package linked above then i'm not sure what else to suggest. this particular piece of hardware is rather complicated for being so simple. (that's an oxymoron, i know, but it makes sense in my head)
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Problem with Small Caps

I have a problem with small caps when using Times New Roman and Helvetica, but not when using Adobe Garamond Pro, and would like to find out why.
I generate the small caps within InDesign by the "TT" box in the Control Window. Adobe Garamond comes up with beautiful small caps that blend in with the surrounding text. When I do the same with Helvetica, the small caps, especially if they have normal caps amongst them, are quite inelegant looking because of different letter widths.
So I did some experiments with half a dozen other serif and sans-serif fonts and none of them were as elegant as Adobe Garamond Pro. For a sample of what I mean, download:
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Unfortunately, I did not pick up this problem until I received my first proof from the printers, and now I will have to change all the Helvetica small caps to normal caps, as I can see no other way of overcoming this inelegancy.
I checked in New Scientist magazine (it uses a serif and sans-serif font throughout, and what I thought I remembered as small caps to begin their stories) to see what they do, but they actually use caps instead of small-caps at the beginning of stories.
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Q1: Is the way I generate small caps the correct way?
Q2: Is there something wrong with my Helvetica and Times New Roman fonts?
Q3: Could it be that only Adobe Garamond has an internal, properly designed small caps?
I have checked the attributes of the fonts: Garamond is Open Type Postscript, Helvetica is PostScript Type 1 , and Times New Roman is TrueType.
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Thanks for the hints. I tried Scott's method and it works with a bit of extra adjustment. The settings I obtained for 12 point Helvetica were:
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Tracking: +25 em
Baseline shift: +0.1 pt
The steps to obtain small-caps 12 pt Helvetica are:
Step 1: Type text as normal.
Step 2: Select only the lower-case text you want to convert to small caps. i.e if what is to become small caps already has a capital (such as a place name) do not apply the settings to the capitals, unless that's the effect you want.
Step 3: Apply the above settings manually or via or Character Style.
Problem 1: How do I rid my Character Style of the font size so that only the scaling factors remain? As it is, if I want to apply small-caps to a different font size than the one I have set up, I have to manually change the font size after applying the style.
Problem 2: The scaling factors do not appear to work for changes in font size. When I used 24 pt and applied the above settings, the small-caps were too thin. The method only really works for a particular size, which in reality is all you would normally require.

My apple keyboard had some problems, the store replaced it for me. I had to sign in to my computer, and couldn't get to pair the keyboard with the computer, as could not sign in. I know there is a command that lets you override this, does anyone know whic

My apple keyboard had some problems, the store replaced it for me. I had to sign in to my computer, and couldn't get to pair the keyboard with the computer, as could not sign in. I know there is a command that lets you override this, does anyone know which buttons to press. I gather when you do this, a box comes up and pairs the two with a number you have to type in.

Hi rpaspinall,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1569
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I'm currently faced with a troubling problem with my keyboard.
Apparently, certain keys when typed, appears together with an additional letter on the screen.
exact problems:
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r when typed, also becomes ir
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f when typed, also becomes kf
v when typed, becomes v,
, when typed, also becomes v,
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This may seem unconventional, but I prefer to use two keyboards with my computers, one for each hand. It's a far more versatile solution then traditional ergonomic keyboards, and allows me to use the Apple keyboards, which I've found to be very good keyboards.
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I've dug through the control panel and searched online pretty extensively, but since there are so few people using more then one keyboard with their computer, that I haven't been able to find any solutions for Mac OS (there are a few for Linux). If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

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HT5636 I am using an Apple keyboard with numeric key pad.

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