This may be too easy...but...

Have you tried pressing the NumLock key to engage the numbers?

Does that help?
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Regards,

Ron (XL2003, Win XP)
Microsoft MVP (Excel)

"Thornton" wrote in message
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The numbers keyboard on my desktop will not function. When using it in an
Excel worksheet, instead of entering the number the computer moves the
cursor
to the previous cell up.