Excel 2003

[Guest]

Hello,

I using a toshiba notebook with a Targus external keypad. When I was using
Office 2000 I had no issues. I have upgraded to Office 2003 and now the
minus key on the keypad will not work in Excel 2003. I do a fair amount of
data entry in my job and it is important that I get this fixed. Not sure if
this is a driver probolem. Some one mentioned to me that when I upgraded
Excel it might have deleted the drivers. The targus keypad did not come with
any drivers. I called targus tech support and they have never heard of this
problem and were no help.

anybody hear of this

 

[Bob I]

Just a thought, does it work in NotePad or Calc? If not then it may be
coincidence the it failed.

 

[Guest]

It works with everything else so i don't think it is a coincidence.

Karim

 

[Bob I]

Then it may be interesting to see what the "-" key on the external pad
is sending and what Excel is receiving.

 

[Guest]

When I press the "-" on the external keypad using Excel it puts a "EXT" on
the botton status bar. This is where you can right mouse click and use
"SUM", "COUNT" etc.

 

[Bob I]

That area also indicates "NumLock, ScrollLock and CapsLock". Does it
"toggle" with pressing the "-" key? Try toggling Numlock and see?

 

[Guest]

Bob I, thanks for al your help.

Yesterday, I noticed that there was a battery in the back of the keypad. I
took it out and tried and for some reason the "-" worked in excel. I put the
battery it continued to work

I looked at what you wrote last, and I tried it. It could be that the
NumLock is a bit stick and that might be the whole problem. I had to depress
the NUmLock for a few secs before the NUM showed up on the status bar in
Excel and the minus key works. When I depress the NumLock key and hit the
minus key, EXT shows up in the status bar.

So in the end all is well .

Karim

 

[Bob I]

You're welcome, and am glad to hear it is working. Thank you for posting
back.