General Discussions

**CSS4Life** · 08-18-2007, 01:46 PM

My Macbook arrived today - great I thought. I set it all up, everything working fine. Then I discovered something extremely bizarre and very annoying.

The s button on the keyboard had been working fine before, but suddenly it just stopped working. I realised that I could not type s in - it simply didn't do anything when I pressed it (all other buttons working fine)

This gets stranger - when I logged off, I realised that I could type s into the password area! I rechecked and I could still not type s when I'm in Mac OS X. What on earth is this???

**CSS4Life** · 08-18-2007, 01:53 PM

OK spoke too soon. I just remembered I'd set CAPS LOCK and S when pressed together, to be a shortcut telling the computer to read the selected writing. Fixed the "problem" now.

It seems a poor design that once a button is assigned to this, it cannot be used for anything else though

**ForrestCroce** · 08-18-2007, 02:08 PM

Glad you got it fixed; my mother had set her laptop on her bed once, and a basset hound walked over it. Some of the keys stopped working, but that was more permanent.