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You can do that? It drives me batshit when I’m always turning my numlock on. Hmm, does that sound dirty to anyone else, or just me? ANYway, I think they should also separate “Print” and “Save.” I KNOW I’m not the only secretarial type in the world who has gone to save a 500 page document and accidentally hit “print.”
“We can put these buttons anywhere on the entire computer screen - I know! Let’s put them side by side, to wreak maximum havoc!”
(Yes, I know, Ctrl S and Ctrl P; sometimes I’m mousketeering, okay?)
I would bitch and moan about the placement of all the keys on the QWERTY keyboard, but they put them stupid on purpose, so bitching about it is kind of pointless. Still, why can’t I have a tab and a comma over with my numerical keypad? Data entry almost always requires tabbing, and often commas.
I think in twenty years, we’ll still have insert, prtscn, and pausebreak on our keyboards, and it’ll just be mystifying as hell why buttons were ever needed for those things.
Seriously, what do people, in general, use more? Insert or “save file?” Why isn’t there a “save file” button? Because it simply isn’t needed. Neither is insert. I already know how to print the screen, and it has nothing to do with the prtscrn button. It’s called control-P, or maybe even move the pointy thing on the screen to the virtual button that says “print” and use my right index finger to poke it.
Twelve F-keys? Just silly. Don’t even get me started on those 207-key keyboards that have buttons for “Web Homepage,” “Email,” or worst yet, “Play.” Has anyone ever used a “play” button on a keyboard?
I dig the (|>) [play] key! And the (<<) (>>) (+) (-) () keys too.
Used to have a keyboard with them, and I could control WMP without moving to the mouse or anything when it was in toolbar mode. Then water got spilled on it. No cool helpful keyboard anymore
This is only a problem in Microsoft applications, because only Microsoft applications skip over the “Print File” dialog box when you hit that damned Print button. In any other application, if I accidentally hit the Print I can cancel it.
My solution is to remove the Print button entirely in Microsoft apps. I don’t need to print all that often and when I do I can just hit File->Print.
You can pry Print Screen from my cold dead hands! I use that key all the time. It takes a screenshot of my screen and copies it to the clipboard. Without it, how could I screencap Youtube vids, IMDB pics, or high scores on Flash video games???
I use PrintScrn every day at my job, to make screen prints. I hate NumLock and Insert, though.
I don’t think a save key is such a hot idea. Accidentally bumping it would cause a window to open up asking what directory you wanted to save your file to. That would drive me insane. I would hate to accidentally save a file to a often accessed network drive at work without realizing it.
That’s like saying it’s only a problem when you breathe. 
Accounting programs often use the function keys.
You’d be shocked to see how many library patrons, who otherwise are actually fast typists, use the Caps Lock key instead of Shift. Caps on, letter, caps off. I don’t know why either.
And while we are at it why are there not cut, copy, paste keys?
Here’s a handy app I use that some may find helpful.
And here’s what I used to fix my Insert key.
Control+Shift+arrow key highlights word by word; use end and home (with or without Control) to highlight to the beginning or end of the line/document. I’ve really tried to find a use for insert; about the only time I have was in a document I made for my second-graders to teach them basic addition facts, in which I wanted to copy and paste 10 facts into successive rows and then just overtype the first addend.
Daniel
Vinyl, that’s the solution that works for me!