ThinkPad Yoga F keys

Any help appreciated.
I'm trying to get my F keys to act in a 'legacy' fashion so I don't need to hit the "Fn" key to get the "F Keys" to work as ordinary F keys.
Tried the Advanced Startup BIOS. Didn't provide me the option there?
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Hi Danny,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
The option of changing the function keys back to legacy is no longer available in the BIOS in most of the new ThinkPad models. You may try the Fn+esc combination that locks it, but when the computer reboots, this resets back to a default mode and you have to use Fn+esc again.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Mithun.
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