Hyphen key on the number pad (1 Viewer)

[KC Foggin]

My dept has gotten all new computers.

My problem is that I use the number pad of the keyboard a great deal but I cannot get the hyphen key to work. When I hit it using the number pad the cursor reverts to home position (top left hand corner). I've tried it with the number lock key on and off. The other hyphen key on the letter part of the keyboard works fine but is not practical for my applications.

I switched the keyboard out with another that was working properly and I still had the same problem on my computer. Any suggestions? Thanks

One more note here

I can get it to work if I derpress the shift key but that is counter-productive when I am entering a lot of numbers.

 

[Tannin]

Do you ever get really annoyed when people answer a question by pointing out some irrelevant and useless fact?

It's not a hyphen key, it's a minus sign key. Hyphen <> minus sign. Different character entirely.

(Sorry.)

There is some weirdness going on there with the character mapping. Maybe I'm just too tired tonight to spot it, or possibly I'm just getting old and vague.

What else is weird about your keyboard? Try various of the other seldom-used keys and see if there is anything else going on that shouldn't be.

 

[KC Foggin]

Okay, my bad for using the wrong terminolgy. It makes sense really as the + key is called the plus key

+ key does not work either unless I use the shift key. Other than that, all other keys seem to be okay.

 

[Tannin]

I just tried some experiments using various shift keys and numlock/capslock and so on on my keyboard and no matter what I did, nothing would make them do different things depending on the shift state - always "-" and "+" no matter what.

It's the sort of weird thing you get with non-standard languages or keyboard layouts installed in Windows (or probably other systems too), but always (in my experience) on the main alpha keyboard, not the numpad. But then, I never, ever use the numpad, so I wouldn't notice. What do you have set in control panel/regional & language options?

 

[Duke Leto]

KC only a guess but if its the same on two keyboards its gotta be the PC it sounds like its not seeing the standard keyboard or its not been configured correctly. Have a look in control panel and if your using XPcontrol panel not classic have a look in printers and other hardware in there is a keyboard icon open it up and look under hardware you should be configured for a 101/102 key microsoft keyboard if not change it. The other thing it might be is sticky shift keys hold down the shift key for 8 seconds and up will pop a menu check these settings
Hope it helps
Steve

 

[KC Foggin]

Well guys, I actually figured this one out just moments ago.

We merge using Corel WP8. When I went into customize keyboard, the keyboard was set at WP 6.1 & menu was at 8 so once I changed them to match, my problem was solved. thanks for your help.