Eric:

This has been very helpful, and confirms what Christy said a while ago.

Thanks very much.

I think that right now, I'll leave things as they are, but will keep the
"pass through" option in mind if I should want to try it later.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Patterson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: question on Jaws with a laptop


> Hi Tom:
>
>     Yes, the caps lock also acts as the Jaws key on a laptop.  This is
> because, laptops and notebooks don't have a numeric keypad so you can't
> actually use the insert key.  Under those conditions, you do have to press
> twice in order to get the caps lock to turn on.  You might be able to use
> the pass-through command.  You would press jaws key + 3 and you would be
> prompted to enter the key you want to pass through.  You would then press
> the caps lock and it should work.  You can write to me off-list if you
have
> any further questions.
>
> Eric
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:48 AM
> Subject: question on Jaws with a laptop
>
>
> > Hi, again, everyone.
> >
> > I have discovered an interesting little quirk with my Dell Lattitude 610
> > laptop that my University purchased for me last year.  On this laptop, I
> use
> > Jaws 7.0, and the operating system is Windows XP Pro.
> >
> > I have noticed that the caps lock key doesn't always go into "caps lock"
> > with the first push of the key.
> >
> > In fact, it seems to do so on about every other tap.
> >
> > Does this have something to do with the fact that we use the capslock
key
> on
> > a laptop with Jaws to toggle between the Jaws and PC cursors, and to
> toggle
> > between jaws to PC, and PC to Jaws?
> >
> > The toggling functions seem to work very well with just one push of the
> caps
> > lock key, but I have to hit it at least one more time to get the caps
lock
> > itself to engage.
> >
> > I have had absolutely no other problems with any of the other keys on
the
> > key-board, which is what is making me believe that this has something to
> do
> > with the dual functionality of the capslock key when using Jaws.
> >
> > Thanks for any thoughts anyone  can give on this.
> >
> > 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> >
>