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#16

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:39 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)

I have several times and get Google

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#17

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:43 pm
by Aaron Calder •

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Quote: hampshireman wrote in post #16
I have several times and get Google

1. Are you using a desktop PC? 2. Have you pressed the 'Num Lock' key at the top left of the numerical keypad at the right of the keyboard? (a light should come on on the keyboard when it is engaged) If you can answer 'yes' to both then the method I described will work.

PS Just turned my Num Lock off and I get Google so that's your problem, Derek.

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#18

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:45 am
by hampshireman (deleted)

I am using a laptop on my desk. I may have unintentionall pressed a button with 2 blue sort of arrows on it. Haven't c lue what it is but when I pressed it now I got Google. No light however so don't know whether it's on or off. I will try other combinations

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#19

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:55 am
by Aaron Calder •

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Just make sure that 'Num Lock' is switched on, Derek. It's exactly the same procedure on a laptop (provided it has a numerical keypad to the right of the keyboard.)

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#20

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:04 am
by hampshireman (deleted)

But what is that key? it's got 2 blue arrows poninting at each other? Is it the NUM lock? It seems an easy way to Google. Caps Lock is fairly obvious

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#21

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:12 am
by hampshireman (deleted)

On oroff?? How do I tell? I have now found the num lk key and tried it with alt or shift and either get Google or it moves up the page. Its also got home on it.

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#22

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:36 am
by hampshireman (deleted)

Oh I give up and will type the word now

degree

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#23

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:50 am
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#24

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:00 am
by Aaron Calder •

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Quote: hampshireman wrote in post #22
Oh I give up

Me too, ° ° ° °

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#25

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:20 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)

Windows8 for dummies doesn't give any clues either. Thanks for your patience Brian

Had various tries with the zip too and the heat application didn't budge it, the pliers looks like it might ruin the zip itself, even the long nose ones and the 90 degrees fiddle and lots of muscle and fiddling failed too. Looks like we have to live with it.

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#26

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:28 pm
by Agger (deleted)

Having supplied thousands of keyboards in a previous employment and being a smartarse earlier in tbe thread, try f6 on some keyboards there is no numlock button as such and f6 usually does it if not listen to these °°°

#27

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:35 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)

Thanks. Is that after typing 90 and do I need to hold shift or any other button

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#28

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:40 pm
by Agger (deleted)

From memory and was a while ago I think it's just f6 to switch numlock on then f6 again to take it off It may not work it depends on your keyboard (even qwerty keyboards come in different configurations) which is silly as it is supposed to be "the industry standard"

#29

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:52 pm
by Aaron Calder •

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First question, Derek. Does your keyboard have a separate numeric keypad at the extreme right side? If not, the Alt method will not work.

If you do have a numeric keypad, you need to switch it on by pressing the 'Num lock' key. When you press this key a light will go on (or off) on your keyboard. You want the light to be on.

Next simply hold down the Alt key while typing 0176 on the numeric keypad and when you release the Alt key the degrees sign will appear thus: °

Pressing the F6 key has no effect on the numeric keypad on either my PC or Mrs C's laptop.

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#30

RE: Zip stuck

in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:10 pm
by hampshireman (deleted)

Thanks for your ongoing support chaps.

The numeric pad is there at the RH side. The num lk key is on the top row above the pad, it also has home on it. Pressing it brings no light or distinguishes one.

I did phone the shop who sold me the laptop and the chap there asked what version of Word am I using, I ansered haven't a clue. If I type a document I use Open Office Writer which is simpler and not the complicated Word system, but I only use it for letters and stuff like that. Typing on this forum and others is more used and important. It can't be this website as you are using it.

Pressing the home/numlk key takes me back to the top of this thread page.

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