That’s mostly likely because of a Windows option that will let you use the number pad to control the mouse–and, once enabled, it’s turned on and off by using the Num Lock key.
My keyboard must be screwed up. I keep hitting the Home key, but I’m still at work. Plus, the Tab key never gives me any cola.
on a manual the typing position also moves to the left of the carriage because the carriage moved to the right.
It’s not moving, though. The carriage and the paper are doing the moving. It doesn’t make sense to diagram that as a movement to the left. It must be based on the electric typewriter.
My Home key has a horn on it, but it never goes off when it’s time to quit. So does the End key, but it points the other way. Does that one blow when the Mayan calendar runs out?
By the way, I think you smarties are all wrong on the A and the 1. If either of those keys are pressed (scroll lock, also), there is no way to know that they are on. Well, okay, the caps is pretty obvious. But the little visual lights on the upper right light up if these are on, and let you know that the reason you can’t use the alternate functions on your number pad, for example, is because the button has been pushed. Computer idiot lights, if you will. So if you notice one of the lights on, you can find what key to push on your keyboard to shut it off by searching for that symbol. It’s fairly convoluted, but think about who designs these things.
My “home” key has a picture of a house on it, but I live in an apartment. 
maybe a better phrasing:
on a manual the typing position also changes to the left of the carriage because the carriage moved to the right.
Of course, the biggest mystery remains: where’s the “any” key?
All electric typewriters (earlier than say the 1990s) still ‘returned’ the paper & carriage the same way a manual did (i.e. from left to right), it just did it automatically at the push of a button. In fact, I remember there were a few electric typewriters that were less expensive because they didn’t include an electric carriage return, they still had the return bar just like a manual. What you’re thinking of is when **IBM **introduced their Selectric typewriter. I believe it was the first to have a non-movable carriage, instead the ‘golf-ball’ printhead moved, left-to-right while typing and then right-to-left for a carriage return. But from all the pictures I can find even the Selectrics didn’t have a left-pointing arrow on the carriage return key. It just had the word RETURN on it.
I’m guessing the left-pointing arrow had to have first come about on electronic terminal keyboards, because it was essentially ‘moving’ the cursor from right-to-left. It was also probably around this time that the word **RETURN **started getting replaced with the now more accurate ENTER.
This all assumes a Latin-based, read left-to-right language, machines of course…
I saw a photo of a keyboard in which someone had pasted a sticker with the name “Billy Mays” over the Caps Lock key. Why is that funny?
BILLY MAYS HERE, FOR THE CAPS LOCK!
In typed communications, ALL-CAPS is regarded as SHOUTING. Billy Mays shouted a whole hell of a lot in his ads. That’s the joke.
That’s what I was going to say – on my Logitech keyboards, the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock keys all have the little symbol-in-a-box marker on them, and each of the three LEDs that light up to tell you when the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock states are active has the corresponding symbol under it. The symbols on the keys are meant to tell you which key corresponds to which LED, apparently.
Perhaps the Logitech keyboards that don’t have it are ones which don’t have the LEDs, like some of my wireless keyboards. Not sure about that.
I want to nominate this thread as having the best serious-to-joking response ratio I’ve read. It’s surprising how entertaining you guys have made learning about keyboards!
I have a button on my work HP keyboard that looks kinda like cheap window blinds with a mouse poking at them, and if you press it, it acts like a right-click. Since it looks vaguely like a contextual menu, I think that’s probably the best (or most descriptive, anyway) keyboard icon for a layperson.
I noticed that my L key disappeared last Christmas. 
The cap key light does not go on when pressed on my new K330 wireless board. How do I activate it?
Nearly 5 year bump. Shouldn’t this Captain Schlock be a Major by now?
That one has no light-up indicators; the Logitech web site says you have to have their software installed and then it will tell you on the screen when Caps Lock / Num Lock get toggled on or off.
I am a bad typist who can’t spell and I have big fingers.
I have used many many many keyboards.
I can not touch type.
I tripled my word output by removing the caps lock key from all my keyboards for the last 10 years.
This also makes the “A” key easy to find and hitting it carefully is not required.
My fingers are always in ‘grenade’ mode… ::: sigh ::::
Does anyone know how to turn the light on for the caps Lock? Mine does not light when locked ??