Hi everyone,
I have a ten keyless keyboard (no number pad on the right side) and love having the extra desk space and a shorter reach to the mouse. It isn’t much but I notice less shoulder pain on the days that seem to never end. The only downside to this set up is the lack of the number pad. When you create a Paragraph, Character or Object Style, you can create a keyboard shortcut that has to be Control/Command plus a number pad key. With a ten keyless keyboard, the number row does not register and unfortunately, Adobe does not allow us to use any other keyboard combination. You can still hit Control and Enter to run quick apply but it takes too long when working on a long document.
I have found a workaround for this problem. AutoHotKey(https://www.autohotkey.com/) for Windows allows you to remap keys so that you can change one key press to another key. Once you install the program, just right click in any folder, choose New, and then AutoHotKey script and name it what you want. Once you create the file, you can open the file with notepad and it will be blank so you will need to type the code into the script. In the case of simple remapping, it is:
To change the ‘a’ key to type ‘b’, type:
a::b
For the lack of number pad, I have chosen to remap the F Number keys to the number pad keys. The symbol for control is ^. A full list of keys can be found here(https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm).
^F1::^Numpad1
^F2::^Numpad2
^F3::^Numpad3
^F4::^Numpad4
^F5::^Numpad5
^F6::^Numpad6
^F7::^Numpad7
^F8::^Numpad8
^F9::^Numpad9
^F10::^Numpad0
Now when you create a new style and go into the shortcut box, you can type Control and an F number to make InDesign think you are typing Control and a Number pad number. I have also tried this script on a laptop that did not have a number pad and it worked.
I know that this is not for everyone but I hope this helps you out if this applies to you!
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