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Title:

Mac keyboards function and numeric keys not working at all

Text:

I have a basic wireless keyboard    http://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MC184LL/B/apple-wireless-keyboard?fnode=56   and all of a sudden my top row of Function keys and the number one to nine numeric keys and their shift-symbols don't work,  nothing happens when I try to use them in any application.  On the left of the number one, the `~ key works, and on the right the 0), -_, =+ keys work fine, as does the delete key. It really is only the one to nine keys and their corresponding shifted key.

I have tried re-pairing the keyboard,  setting the default keyboard settings, various keyboard on/off combinations, etc.  Initially I thought my child hit some sort of keystroke combination that turned these keys off, but now I think it maybe more than this.Nothing has been spilled on the keyboard, and it has not been hit or dropped.

Device:

Apple Keyboard

Status:

open

Accepted Answer:

+249968

Edit by: Andrew W.

Title:

Mac keyboards function and numeric keys not working at all

Text:

I have a basic wireless keyboard    http://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MC184LL/B/apple-wireless-keyboard?fnode=56   and all of a sudden my top row of Function keys and the number one to nine numeric keys and their shift-symbols don't work,  nothing happens when I try to use them in any application.  On the left of the number one, the `~ key works, and on the right the 0), -_, =+ keys work fine, as does the delete key. It really is only the one to nine keys and their corresponding shifted key.

I have tried re-pairing the keyboard,  setting the default keyboard settings, various keyboard on/off combinations, etc.  Initially I thought my child hit some sort of keystroke combination that turned these keys off, but now I think it maybe more than this.Nothing has been spilled on the keyboard, and it has not been hit or dropped.

Device:

-Desktop Mac with wireless keyboard
+Apple Keyboard

Status:

open

Original post by: Antje H

Title:

Mac keyboards function and numeric keys not working at all

Text:

I have a basic wireless keyboard    http://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MC184LL/B/apple-wireless-keyboard?fnode=56   and all of a sudden my top row of Function keys and the number one to nine numeric keys and their shift-symbols don't work,  nothing happens when I try to use them in any application.  On the left of the number one, the `~ key works, and on the right the 0), -_, =+ keys work fine, as does the delete key. It really is only the one to nine keys and their corresponding shifted key.

I have tried re-pairing the keyboard,  setting the default keyboard settings, various keyboard on/off combinations, etc.  Initially I thought my child hit some sort of keystroke combination that turned these keys off, but now I think it maybe more than this.Nothing has been spilled on the keyboard, and it has not been hit or dropped.

Device:

Desktop Mac with wireless keyboard

Status:

open