Number Pad on Mac Wireless Bluetooth Keybord

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by jaccolon3, Mar 28, 2007.

  1. jaccolon3

    jaccolon3 Junior Member

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    I am running 3188 and it has been nearly perfect. Love it.
    only problem, It does not recognize any input from the number pad on my Mac bluetooth wireless keyboard.
    The Enter key works just fine but the 2, 8, 4, 6 keys work like up right left and down arrows.
    the /, *,-,+ keys all work ok. but = does not.
    Any way to fix this?
    would really be helpful when working on a spreadsheet.

    thanks
     
  2. Hugh Watkins

    Hugh Watkins Forum Maven

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    there have been past issues with blue tooth keyboards

    but it is fine with a USB keyboard MS or Apple

    also my MS Mouse is USB
    (lighter without batteries)


    Huh W
     
  3. Tyrven

    Tyrven Bit poster

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    I am not sure about Parallels, however I can say that under BootCamp running Vista x64 without the Apple Keyboard driver I am able to press the "Clear" button which is interpretted as "Numlock" by Windows. I don't know if this will work for you - but it's worth a shot.
     
  4. Eru Ithildur

    Eru Ithildur Forum Maven

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    Try the clear button. It IS the Windows clear button. Once you get used to it, it becomes a non-issue. We use several Apple Bluetooth keyboards in our office, the only hitch is waiting for it to pick up toggling between BootCamp and OS X.
     
  5. TonyD48

    TonyD48 Bit poster

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    iMAC 17"

    'clear key' activates number pad on MAC keyboard when in PC, been driving me nuts.
    :D
     

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