Wireless keyboard w/ number pad

Is anyone using an original Apple Wireless keyboard (circa 2005) on a newer mac? I cannot get mine to work with my 2008 Macbook or 2010 iMac...

I recall an iPhone app that lets you use said iPhone as a number pad.
You can make a script that applies a style, and then assign any keyboard shortcut you want to that script.
I did that for a while, but eventually just started using Quick Apply. I started naming my styles in such a way as to keep ID functions out of the Quick Apply list - starting style names with varying numbers of apostrophes or right square brackets or whatever keys are handy and unused and right next to the Enter key. It wound up being rather faster than the numpad shortcuts for documents with large numbers of styles, after a few long nights of slightly frustrating re-education.

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Hi,
does the numpad work in other Windows programs, or is it just the MS Office programs ?
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Virginia,
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