key F5

[birost]

Key F5 stopped working in PowerPoint 2010, but shift+F5 works.
How can I fix this problem.
Thanks,
Boris
P.S. HP 15-ay511ur (Y6F65EA)

Notebook was purchased in December 2016

[visruth]

Hi,


You mean f5 function key?

Why are you pressing this key for?

What does SHIFT + F5 key do?


Regards

Visruth

[birost]

MS  OFFICE 2010 contains a PowerPoint module.  F5 key - start first slide of presentation, SHIFT+F5 combination - start current slide of presentation.

Regards

[visruth]

What about Function Fn + F5 key?

[birost]

I don't use Function Fn + F5 key in this application.

[visruth]

Hi,


To start a presentation from the current slide:
In PowerPoint 2003 or later:
press Shift+F5

To start a presentation from the beginning:
In PowerPoint for Windows:
press F5

Is this not the case?


Regards

Visruth

[birost]

"To start a presentation from the beginning:
In PowerPoint for Windows:
press F5"

This function is not started after pressing F5 in my HP 15-ay511ur.

To replace a F5 key or a all keyboard?

Regards, 

Boris

[mdklassen · Accepted solution]

In many programs running on Windows, 'F5' is the "refresh" function.

Start Internet Explorer, fetch a page, and press 'F5', to see if the key works at all, or is "broken".

Attach a USB keyboard, start PowerPoint, and press 'F5' on that keyboard, to see if PowerPoint reacts to that key, when the key-press comes from the external keyboard.  If it does, then PowerPoint is working correctly.

[birost]

Start Internet Explorer, fetch a page, and press 'F5', but F5 key doesnt work.  In addition SHIFT+F5, CNTR+F5 and Fn+F5 work.

Unfortunately  I have not a USB keyboard.

Possibly a F5 key is "broken".

Regards

[mdklassen]

>   I have not a USB keyboard.

Too bad.  Can you "borrow" one from somebody, for a few minutes?

Keyboards work by sending "signals" to the motherboard:

Hold-down CTRL --> sends "make" and 'CTRL'

Press & release F5 --> sends "make" and 'F5' and "break"

Release CTRL --> sends "break"

So, if SHIFT-F5 works --> Make / CTRL / Make / F5 / break / break

then just F5 also should work -> Make / F5 / break

Using an external USB keyboard should be a good test of whether those "make" and "break" signals are being sent from that keyboard, and are properly being processed by the motherboard.