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Old November 13th, 2006, 04:56 PM
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The most pointless key of the keyboard?

Not a default poll since there wold be 105 options in normal sized mac keyboard, and the extras on windows etc keyboards....

What is the most useless key on the keyboard?
Or the most useless keys.
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Old November 13th, 2006, 05:13 PM
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How about the 'any' key?
I guess that would be 'most' useful, not least.
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Old November 13th, 2006, 05:26 PM
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The 'help' key.
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Old November 13th, 2006, 05:41 PM
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The 'help' key.
Agreed. The only thing it ever does is drive people crazy when they hit it accidentally.

F15 is close, since Apple seems to have tried their very best to make it useless. It's very hard to wrestle control of it away from the system, and the system doesn't actually do anything with it unless you're using certain kinds of Apple monitors.
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Old November 13th, 2006, 05:47 PM
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Caps Lock before it is remapped to Control the way God intended it to be!

( We used to have fights over the old Sun keyboards when they tried to move the control key to the PC position on the new ones. )
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Old November 13th, 2006, 06:11 PM
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num lock on the standard keyboard (not laptops)
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Old November 13th, 2006, 07:53 PM
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On a laptop, the Caps lock. If I press it, it's usually by accident. On a full-size, probably the help key.
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Old November 14th, 2006, 12:15 AM
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Definitely the "Help" key. Damn thing.

A close second is the F16 key, followed by my dead Tab key.
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