I am an elderly new user of Excel and wish to use the numeric keypad. I can
use it in other places but seems to switch off in Excel. Please help me in
really basic terms. Thank you.

Hi Copper, I think that you need to either turn on (or turn off) what is
called the Number Lock key.

I do not have one of these of the keyboard on which I am working but most
keyboards (including yours) will have one.

It might be called NUM Lock or something like that.

One you have turned it on (normall a light will display) you should then be
able to use the numeric keyboard.

If you are still having problems just post again and I will try and help you
out further.

Please hit Yes if my comments have helped.

Thanks.

"Copper" wrote:

I am an elderly new user of Excel and wish to use the numeric keypad. I can
use it in other places but seems to switch off in Excel. Please help me in
really basic terms. Thank you.

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:57:01 -0800, trip_to_tokyo
wrote:

Hi Copper, I think that you need to either turn on (or turn off) what is
called the Number Lock key.

I do not have one of these of the keyboard on which I am working but most
keyboards (including yours) will have one.

It might be called NUM Lock or something like that.

One you have turned it on (normall a light will display) you should then be
able to use the numeric keyboard.

If you are still having problems just post again and I will try and help you
out further.

Please hit Yes if my comments have helped.

Thanks.

"Copper" wrote:

I am an elderly new user of Excel and wish to use the numeric keypad. I can
use it in other places but seems to switch off in Excel. Please help me in
really basic terms. Thank you.


Good response. Odd though... I do not recall my Office installation
doing anything to my num lock setting, so perhaps it was pressed
inadvertently by this person during the install.