Caps Lock.....why?

i AGREE. iT'S A REAL PAIN SOMETIMES.

Perhaps a bright flashing led on the keyboard whenever the Capslock is on would help.

Steve B

I have a light on the Caps Lock key on my iBook but it's green.

Cheers,

JR

I find I hit it most when trying to find the tab key or 'A' SEE WHat i meAN!

Its of no value at all. Decent editors allow you to change case of text easily so its not needed.

Also, why the hell do we still have to use the qwerty keyboard? That was designed to SLOW DOWN typists so that the typewriter keys didn't keep on getting stuck.

If you've ever watched a trained typist you wonder how quick they would have been if using a decent efficient layout.

There is one use : when you have to mix capital letters and figures, like in a mac address for instance.

But that's it, indeed.

Cheese

Keyboards are accumulators of the needs of history - at one time all work on a keyboard when connected to a main frame or when punching cards for input was in caps so if you were connected via PC a CAPS lock would have been beneficial

Moving from a QUERTY or a QWERTZ or AZERTY to an
efficient key layout
eg the DVORAK Layout
would be of a similar magnitude to getting the UK to drive on the right hand side of the road.

Transferring between keyboards is a challenge - especially if the keyboard has been mapped to the key tops - letters are not where you expect them to be, in some keyboards the top row reacts differently to the shift key.

The challenge of changing keyboard layout between cyber cafes other peoples desks etc would kill productivity for quite a while.

More info on Keyboard layouts

Derek

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getting the UK to drive on the right hand side of the road.

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Why the worlds largest car manufacturer and the 2nd largest Island drive on the correct side others should change.

Howard

....and while we're at it....

the [Insert] key

Jonathan

At last, and after years of thinking I was the only one, a group of like minded people.

I have even written to Dell asking them to remove the bloody things off their keyboards....

Come on, encourage your spouses, co workers, friends, etc etc to write and complain.

AlternATIVELY, WE COULD ALL LEARN TO TYPE PROPERLY AND STOP COMPLAINING. yOU COULD ALSO, AGHHHHHHHHH....................


.....enders in the sky!

Julian,

The windows key is a gift.
Shortcut Keys Description
Windows Key + D Minimizes all windows and returns the user to the desktop
Windows Key + E Open Microsoft Explorer
Windows Key + F Display the Windows Search / Find feature
Windows Key + CTRL + F Display the search for computers window
Windows Key + F1 Display the Microsoft Windows help
Windows Key + L Lock the computer (Windows XP and above only)
Windows Key + M Minimizes all windows
Windows Key + Pause / Break key Open the system properties window
Windows Key + R Open the run window
Windows Key + SHIFT + M Undo the minimize
Windows Key + Tab Cycle through open programs through the taskbar
Windows Key+ U Open Utility Manager

In my experience data entry people use caps lock all the time. Those in my place of work do anyway as much of our data is held that way for historical reasons.