Oh my god, I am going out of my mind. I just bought a new Dell laptop (Inspiron 14R) and am trying to figure out how to use the plus and minus and enter keys in the Calculator program, so that I can do everything via the keyboard instead of typing numbers and then having to mouse over and click the plus symbol on the calculator.
I was guessing that the Number Lock key would help, but I can't figure out which effing F key is Number Lock, and all the googling in the world just turns up supremely unhelpful stuff like "To enable Number Lock, press the Fn key + NumLock." BUT WHICH KEY IS NUMLOCK???
Sorry for the asscaps, but I've been trying to figure out this very simple thing for at least half an hour, and I'm about to tear my hair out!
...you don't have a plus sign over the equals key? Where have they put things on your laptop??
Try function - f11 or look for a little lock, somewhere?
meara, there's a plus sign over the equals key on my keyboard, but when I press it while in the Calculator program, nothing happens. I want to find the key that will make it work like it's supposed to!
Daniel, none of my keys have a lock symbol on them. I've tried several keys and none have worked, and I'm reluctant to try them all (since I don't know what any of them do) in case I trigger something I can't undo.
I don't have a keypad on my keyboard, but F6 has a little lock on it. If that helps.
Doesn't seem to be NumLock on my keyboard, but thanks for mentioning it, Jesse. *sigh* I'm starting to think I just can't do what I want to do, which is annoying, and makes me miss the big keyboard on my desktop (with a separate number pad and everything!).
meara, there's a plus sign over the equals key on my keyboard, but when I press it while in the Calculator program, nothing happens. I want to find the key that will make it work like it's supposed to!
Try "shift" + "+" when you want to add in Calculator. I don't have NumLock either; I have to use F11, which is really annoying for accents.
Aha, that worked! ...I don't know why that didn't occur to me. D'oh. Thank you!
External numberic keypads are cheap. Just saying.
OK, I am taking a quick break while letting the cake cool.
So. I will not be able to work more heavily on this until June, but I want to garner my forces now.
As some of you may remember, I bought my domain name and hosting services through Dreamhost, and quick-uploaded the wordpress.org package and got my website going. No real content on there -- just wanted to get something up to work on.
Now, I can't even figure out a way to GET to my dashboard to make changes to the wordpress page, and all the other stuff at Dreamhost: FTP sites, SQL, activation, yadda yadda, is Greek to me.
I really thought since I have no problem with my wordpress.com blog, that having and hosting my freelancing page through Dreamhost and Wp.org would be fine, but I AM LOST.
Utterly, driven to tears, can't even figure out how to get to my WP.org dashboard LOST.
Would anyone, in about 3 weeks or so, be willing and able to help me out setting all this Dreamhost stuff up? I am willing to, and am trying to, educate myself -- I want to be self-sufficient. But right now, it's all gibberish, and I can't DO ANYTHING. I'm afraid to do anything, because it's like I'm reading a BOMB MAKING MANUAL in Sanskrit or something.
I am broke as fuck, but I would be willing to pay a a little money, barter freelance writing and editing services, bake you a freakin' cake, give you access to my Dreamhost account for tweaks -- whatever. (I'm not dumb -- I'm talking about Buffistas I've known forever, and would change the password.
But this is beyond my present skills, and I need HELP.
Like I said, I can't concentrate on it till after June 3rd. But I tried to get onto my site today just to do some quick thing and CAN'T EVEN ACCESS IT.
And this is going to be my gateway for my freelancing business and it's vital and I can't afford a web designer and I am FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
Ok, I have to go roast a chicken, glaze a cake and shower. and stop hyperventilating.
Profile addy is good.
