HOW do you use INS/PRT SC key to insert copied data? It is not working! HELP!

[Mamacat104]

I just got a DV6-7010us pavilion... I have always used the INSERT key when I copy data and insert it into a message, chat screen, document...   this computer has an  INS/PRT SC key.  I cannot get the key to work to insert data into anything.   How do you use this key???  or is there another way to insert data that you copied, into something..???  I am used to using the Shift+Insert key on my old laptop.    Right now, I am trying to keep in my mind to use the mouse to insert data... but would like to be able to use the key on the laptop keyboard.   

   Is there a way to do this???

thank you

Barbara

[erico · Accepted solution]

You will need to identify your notebook for any of us to have a clue as to what your keyboard looks like. There are so many models made by HP that one must be specific. 

Remove the battery and look for the label that says p/n. Post that whole alphanumeric character string here. That is your HP product number. G6 or dv6 or dv7 are all just model numbers.

You can also accomplish that by using Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste. Those are what most people use to copy and paste in most applications and productivity programs.

Since Windows 7 has the Snipping tool I don't even need to use the Ins or Prt Scr keys any more.

[Mamacat104]

I did put the laptop I have at the beginning of the message ??? it is the DV6 7010US pavilion

thank you

[erico]

I see it. Thanks. 

Here is a description of all of the available Windows keystrokes and shortcuts.

If you have already copied something into the notepad memory space with Ctrl+C,  just put the cursor where you want it to go and tap the Ins key. The data that is currently in the notepad should be duplicated where the cursor is in whateveer text program you are using (MS Messenger or word for example).

[Mamacat104]

If you have already copied something into the notepad memory space with Ctrl+C, just put the cursor where you want it to go and tap the Ins key. The data that is currently in the notepad should be duplicated where the cursor is in whateveer text program you are using (MS Messenger or word for example).

    I already tried that... don't work.  When you hit the ins/prt sc key, it makes a copy of your screen... the INS part of the key don't work 😞

thank you

[erico]

Then just use Ctrl + the V key to paste it. 

[koam]

The OP wants to use the key that has INS printed on it to SHIFT + INS.  (That is a traditional Windows PASTE combo and it works if you have a working key that is set up as INS.  Also CTRL + INS is COPY). 

CTRL +V is a workaround but it doesn't anwser the specific question asked. 

I would like to use the INS function on the key marked PRT SC with INS in superscript. 

I have had trouble finding the documentation on the specialty keyboards that are set up by HP in a way that's a little different from other OEMs.

I've found a thread on MIcrosoft.   It is not true that Microsoft took the traditona copy and paste keyboard combos using the INS key out of Windows.  This is an HP issue.  Microsoft does not drop its old keyboard shortcut standards on a whim.

I found it helpful to use GOOGLE search rather than try to find the soluton on the HP Support forums.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/shift-insert-does-not-paste-any-...

[Mamacat104]

Thank you 

   Shift + INS key don't work...  

  I just hit the prt sc key to copy the screen... then in the document, I do a paste function and it pastes the screen copy into the document  or photo editor

[koam]

I was able to remap the "PRT SC" key to the "INS" function on my new HP Pavilion 17-inch laptopl

I used the freeware program called KEYTWEAK.

It was very simple.

Now when I press PRT SC it is the INS key.  When I press SHIFT + PRT C it is the PASTE fucntion in WINDOWS.

CTRL + PRT SC is now the COPY function in Windows (I am using Windows 8.1).

[koam]

The next step is to program a keyboard combo to execute the PRT SC function.  I'll have to use the freeware program AutoHotKey to set up that combo.