I received a keyboard for my last birthday, and somehow I didn’t notice that it didn’t have any arrow keys until after they had left. It works perfectly well, but the lack of arrow keys comes up sometimes as an annoyance. Is there any kind of little add-on I can buy for them?
The first thing that comes to mind is that they do sell separate numpads for laptops. Those would have arrows on them. Just look for “external numpad.”
There also are also macro keyboards that just have a limited number of keys that you can configure to whatever you want them to be. Some are even already arranged in the arrow key form.
That said, a keyboard without arrows is very strange to me. Can you find the model online, or at least show a pic?
What does sometimes happen is that there are arrow keys, but they require some special key combo to activate.
I’m an idiot. A grade-A numbskull. No one else can do a brainless thing today bc I already did one. I JUST NOTICED that 4 of the keys (UHJK) have little arrows on the side. 
And I checked and you have to press the FN key to “switch” them to arrow mode.
Thanks for your reply.
Even then, it might still be nice to have dedicated arrow keys. The terms to look for, as I said, are “external numpad” and “macro keyboard”
Heck, here’s a super cheap one that is just the arrow keys.
Excellent! I have a Razer Huntsman Mini.
My pirate keyboard doesn’t have arrow keys.
Gaming keyboards (like the Razer brand) can dispense with arrow keys because games traditionally allocate main-keyboard keys for things you might expect arrows for, like movement (i.e., “WASD” movement keybinds).
On behalf of the Union for Hyperactive Jewish Kids … I’m glad we could help.
Wow, I’ve never in my life seen a keyboard without directional keys. I wonder where they got it.
Amazon. Computer stores that cater to gamers. Direct purchase from the manufacturers.
Pretty much the same places you can buy productivity-oriented keyboards.
It’s a 61-key “mini keyboard” like this:
Wow! Okay, now I have seen one. LOL
The very first “modern” PC came with a keyboard that lacked dedicated arrow keys (as they were assigned as alternative mappings for the number pad, hence “num lock”):
I can see why they would be considered secondary keys. I hardly ever use mine to be honest.
This is known as a 60% keyboard, or sometimes 65%, the main difference seems to be any added programmable keys. No Function key row, no arrow keys or the Ins/Home/PgUp section. 80% keyboard is just missing the numpad section but has the arrows and the rest.
Most games these days use WASD to replace the very old school arrow keys. From a productivity standpoint I’ve decided I like 100%, but I use an 80% with a separate USB numpad now.
I’m Old School; I like all my keys! LOL
If you do anything in Excel, even the lightest data entry, you end up missing every key on smaller keyboards.
Except Scroll Lock, I never use that thing.