Windows 10: Odd number pad behaviour

Hello! Something odd has happened with my number pad over the last couple of weeks. I have the num lock on and this works for the numbers, but I cannot enter the plus, multiply or divide symbols without pressing shift at the same time. The minus symbol works okay. I have tried 2 different keyboards and the same thing happens, so I think it’s an issue with Windows 10. It happened whether I’m trying to enter characters into Excel or into Word. I’d be grateful for any suggestions. Thank you!

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Number pad that comes with Sculpt wireless keyboard.

Hi,

This problem may occur due to an outdated or corrupted device driver. For us to provide the best resolution possible, we'll be needing additional information:

• Is the number pad device visible on Device Manager?
• Is the wireless keyboard working on your computer?

Meanwhile, we suggest following the troubleshooting steps provided on this
article. It contains information and basic troubleshooting steps regarding keyboard problems in Windows.

We're looking forward to your reply.

 

Odd behaviour of Format Painter

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I misunderstood what you had said about pasting - I guess I read the first paragraph and then lept to the document without reading the rest.

Anyway ...

I wrote two short passages of text. One in Arial italic 11pt and the other in Berlin Sans FB Bold 14pt.

Before:





I then 'Format Painted' the Arial text onto a part of the Berlin Sans text and Format Painter worked as expected.

After:





Will now try your suggestion which replicates what I was doing but avoiding the Notepad step.

Art

UPDATE:

Well, I went to the web souce and copied some text then pasted it into my docuement using the 'Paste Special', 'Paste as Unformatted Text' and I got the copied tect from the web in the same font as the line above (as expected since Word hadn't changed the formatting).

I then took two different font styles from further up the document to test using Format Painter.

The first worked as expected, keeping the font bold but changing the text from Berin Sans FB 14pt Bold to Arial 12pt bold.

The second didn't work as expected. The font style selected for copying was Arial 24pt normal but using Format Painter it changed the style from Berin Sans FB 14pt Bold to Arial 12pt bold - i.e. keeping the bold text option/flag (whatever).





Something very odd going on and, as you intimated, some sort of 'formatting carry-over' fromNotepad.

Most curious.

Art

 

Use number pad of mac keyboard on Windows 10

I have a Windows 10 desktop and I use a mac keyboard with number pad on it. Its model number is A1243 and its connected by USB. However I cant seem to get the right driver or configuration to get the number pad to actually work. Any suggestions?