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Thank you for this. I'm not familiar with the AltGr key - I've often wondered what the "Gr" means - and usually use the Alt key on the LH side. However, I think on this new laptop I'll have to involve the FN key in order to use the normal numbers along the top of the keyboard, in the absence of...

I use a desktop at home, but the laptop is for when I'm travelling, so it wouldn't be very convenient to have another keyboard while I'm on the move, but in fact I work for weeks at a time abroad, and it would be an advantage then to have another keyboard. I'll enquire about it at my computer...

Ah! In that case, do you think that the FN will help me to get some sort of replacement for the number keys that appear on the right of a desktop keyboard? I use a lot of accented letters (I'm a translator) and usually insert them by pressing ALT + a number code to give me, say "é" or "ã". How...

Thanks to both who kindly replied. I tried using FN + Home and FN + End without success, but this made me think that perhaps the FN key would work with the more usual Control + Home or Control + End combination. So I pressed FN + Control + Home and it worked! Thank you very much - I wouldn't...

I have a new Dell laptop. The keyboard commands Control + Home and Control + End don't work to take me to the beginning or end of a document. Any suggestions?