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
>