Those Darn Number Keys

[trpenner]

My wife own's the MDA which is great for text entry into her spreadsheets but what about those darn number keys. It seems that on a standard keyboard, numbers are entered when they are typed from the top row. I would like to map one of the buttons to toggle those on/off as needed with an indicator of some sort so that she would know if numbers were on/off. Is there a good app for this.

Also, our child (2nd grade now) has had trouble writing and it occured to me that the MDA could make an excellent teacher of such tasks if the software existed. Does any software exist that might allow a child to practice writing?

[vippie]

Tapping the "dot" (key left bottom) twice will put an "dot" indicator on you're screen and you will type only numbers. Tapping twice again will turn it off. Tapping once will give you one number. Is this what you mean?

[bbobeckyj]

molski has a cab file on his site to enable the screen to show a 'dot' or a 'c' (Caps lock) if either is selected. there is also a registry fix - see the wiki fro wm5 tweaks

[trpenner]

Tapping the "dot" (key left bottom) twice will put an "dot" indicator on you're screen and you will type only numbers. Tapping twice again will turn it off. Tapping once will give you one number. Is this what you mean?sort-of. By default, on a PC, you have numbers when you type. By default on an MDA, you don't. If I wanted to change the registry or some setting elsewhere so that it would more closely mimic a standard keyboard (sort-of backward from the current method), could this be done?