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I have had this ongoing "Love-Hate Relationship" with the HP keyboard included in my purchase of the above-identified computer. I simply do not know how to find out if the "CAPS LOCK" is turned on, or off. I have never seen anything like this, even my laptops, including the simple designed for idiots "Chromebook" one we use solely for entertainment sites and screen casting has a light or other indicator so that the user can determine if the "CAPS LOCK" KEY  has been activated. Often, it seems that it was accidentally opened when I was trying to type the letter "A" and when perhaps I am trying to input a Citation for a journal, or simply entering a Password (and it gets further complicated when there is no option to see in plain text the password that was entered, hence it is impossible to determine a simple error of case inversion as to the password having been entered been entered. but that is a complaint for another time and place).

I have lived with this problem over the years in that I generally dictate everything and leave it up to the transcriptionist to figure it out (perhaps she has purchased another brand of computer and keyboard and it is not a problem for her), however, for a number of business reasons we are changing the input mechanisms for the brief documents to avoid the delays being experienced in transcription and there is really no way for me to figure out the "CAPS LOCK" status without actually reading each entry, and that is what we have transcription personnel and secretaries for in general, but it is most problematic when trying to enter passwords that do not have a "plain text" options in the opening page for security reasons. Obviously, there is no "light' or other indicator (that I know of) that provides such feedback, which results in numerous needs for starting the whole process all over again, or worse yet, the requirement to change the existent password, and then go through all of our security  procedures to protect it (and it will never work if it has been changed during a "Character Inversion Error" episode>

How does anyone know whether their "Caps Locked" option is on or off? Is there some marker on the display, or other secret means of doing so without the need to just disable (or enable) the "CAPS LOCK" option and typing gibberish just to know what character status, upper or lower case, etc. that is currently the operative mode when using an HP Keyboard as the input device.

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hi

The best Caps Lock software to use in Windows

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/How-does-one-turb-Numbers-Lock-...

too bad, because it's not the first time that I respond to this request, but it seems too complicated to say if it's ok or not sometime

 

 

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