Turning off the keyboard illumination

Is there any way to turn off the illumination of the keys with one key press? On my old MBP, There was an additional function key that acted like a mute button. It's annoying to have to hit the dimmer or brighter key 5 or 6 times to get it to where I want or turn it off. Is there a work around for that or did Apple just drop the ball on this one?

Sorry, but all I saw was two separate posts saying "Apple dropped the ball on this one" when there really was no ball to be dropped in the first place. If you hold the dimmer key for one second the backlight will turn off from most levels. Apple generally is not in the business of putting a million keys on computers and cluttering up the machine for things that are not necessary.
I say, there are better uses for function keys; that's all I was trying to get at.
--Travis

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