Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

The Logitek wireless keyboards are very good.

But have a real problem that if the keytop comes
off, it can be impossible to put it back on again.

Just one more thought,

Too radical by far.

if you have been reprogramming keys, then are you absolutely sure you have
not permanently left it programmed to do nothing at all?

Yes, it works fine in some software.

I've seen this happen with laptops which allow toggling of the function
keys between laptop control and the original functions when there is
registry corruption due to a hard drive issue.


"newshound" wrote in message
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On 12/01/2021 16:27, Bert Coules wrote:
I'd be grateful for any suggestions as to why one key - and only one
key - on my PC keyboard should suddenly have stopped working.

The key in question is f11 which I'm trying to program with a Word
macro. Until yesterday it was working perfectly with a slightly
different version of the same macro.

The keyboard is an admittedly quite elderly (and expensive, when bought)
Cherry model which in every other respect is working fine.

I've tried opening the case and cleaning the keyboard's innards, both
with a brush and an air spray. There's no visible damage either to the
underside of the board or (with the key cap removed) to the individual
switch.

Thanks.

IMHO decent keyboards are so cheap now that it is probably not worth
spending any more time on it. In "desktop" days I used to be very fussy
about keyboard action, it may be that having used a dozen or more laptops
in the past 20 years I have become more tolerant. I'm currently using an
HP keyboard that was £12 in Sainsburys (I bought it when I needed to fire
up a unix box, then it was in my spares box for a few years until the
Dell keyboard died).