[Shop-talk] keyboard help

[Doug Braun]

You can add registry entries to remap any key to a different keycode.
I have added one to my PC to disable the caps lock key, which I hit
accidentally
far more often than deliberately.

Hopefully there is some simple app that will accomplish that more easily
than researching the correct
keywords and codes you need to do it manually.  In any case, you certainly
don't need
a special keyboard.

Doug

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:41 PM, John Niolon <jniolon at att.net> wrote:

> my work involves a lot of excel work and similar data being copy and pasted
> from one sheet to another...  my old keyboard had programmable keys and I
> use
> a left handed mouse.  I programmed two unused keys on the right side with
> <ctrl> c and <ctrl> v.  I'd highlight the date with the mouse in my left
> hand... hit the reprogrammed copy key...switch sheets and hit the paste
> key...
> slick, fast and easy..
>
> new keyboard is a microsoft wireless and while it does have a 'program'
> function..., it will only move keys around and not let you actually input
> keys
> to program to that key.  None of the programs I've found on line allow  the
> user to type in control functions and map it to a key...
>
> anyone have any suggestions ???   years ago I had a Gateway computer with a
> keyboard utility that actually recorded keystrokes to a key similar to a
> macro
> I guess...
>
> I'm not a macro writer and don't want to be... I just want to put <ctrl> c
> and
> <ctrl> v on some keys and get on with my life...  it's cumbersome for a
> left
> handed person to enter those combos with their right hand...
>
> help ???
>
> tia
> john