[Trainer-Talk] Reversing what function keys do on Apple Magic Keyboard

[richardfox1 at comcast.net]

Hello Brian,

I'm working with a state agency whose clients are primarily retired or have
no vocational goal. Therefore, I must work with whatever technology the
client brings to the table. 
Rick Fox 

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Rick,

I guess my first question is why he's using an Apple Magic Keyboard with a
PC?  That makes very little sense.  I say that because there are keys, such
as the Windows Key and Applications/Context Menu key that are very heavily
used under Windows that don't exist on Apple Keyboards.  It becomes
difficult to teach in this circumstance because some very commonly used
keyboard shortcuts need to be "translated" to the Apple Keyboard.  As an
example, I have never heard of the globe key prior to your mentioning it,
and I still have no idea what it is after looking at images of the Apple
Magic Keyboard.

That being said, it is the PC itself, in the vast majority of cases, that
controls whether or not the use of the Fn key is required to make function
keys serve as straight function keys rather than media keys, hot keys, or
whatever the given PC manufacturer (or BIOS maker) calls these in BIOS.

Can you tell us what computer this keyboard is being used with?  That's
going to determine how you get into BIOS and turn media keys off.  Once
that's done, you have to hit the FN key plus a function key to get the media
function, but the function key alone is just a plain function key.

Brian
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