SCROLL LOCK from a normal KEYBOARD

Hi I need to be able to turn on and off at my leisure the SCROLL LOCK KEY.
How is it possible that I can not activate this key even with the virtual keyboards ?
there must be the possibility to map this key to another key on the keyboard. I need to use this key SCROLL LOCK to work with excel and beyond.SCRO
Plus if you buy a keyboard ( not apple ) that uses that key for some functions, such functions can I use this ?
seems absurd to me that there is a possibility via the terminal, via dedicated app or other way to be able to map this key on the keyboard of the Mac. in particular find it ridiculous that this problem is present only on Mac OS X. I have a MacBookPro 15 "early 2011 with OS vers , 10.7.5

A menu title means to write the available menu item (such as Print) as you see it in it's menu.
However, scroll lock does not have a menu in the Finder or anywhere.
You're right there. Dead end?
But looking at Mac Help with scroll lock as the topic, I found that Control + F14 is the keyboard equivalent for scroll lock. You'll find this under "Windows Keys on a Mac Keyboard."
Whether you can remap that I don't know.

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I'm recently using Office 2011 for Mac and I have a problem with excel. Accidentally I made a mac key combination and I disabled the scroll lock. I want to enable it again in order to move the cell selected using the arrow keys. I can not use Ctrl-F14 (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/cdb_winkeys.html) because the new keyboard only have from F1 to F12.
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Hi, Anton8
I did some research and found this document from Microsoft that may help. If Scroll Lock is turned on, but there is no Scroll Lock on your keyboard, then you may want to try using the On-Screen Keyboard and see if it is enabled there, There is also a setting on the status bar that should allow you to disable it.
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