1 00:00:06,810 --> 00:00:08,940 - Let's talk about keyboard functionality 2 00:00:08,940 --> 00:00:11,850 and touchpad functionality on a laptop. 3 00:00:11,850 --> 00:00:14,310 Now, the keyboard on a laptop is generally the same 4 00:00:14,310 --> 00:00:16,110 as a desktop keyboard. 5 00:00:16,110 --> 00:00:19,650 The main difference is gonna be your function key, 6 00:00:19,650 --> 00:00:21,240 and the additional functionality 7 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:23,043 on these function keys up here. 8 00:00:23,940 --> 00:00:28,290 Some laptops are known as desktop replacements, 9 00:00:28,290 --> 00:00:30,930 and these have a full-size, 101-keyboard 10 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:33,690 with an entire numeric keypad over here. 11 00:00:33,690 --> 00:00:36,000 This one is not a desktop replacement. 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,290 It's a standard laptop that takes those numeric keys 13 00:00:40,290 --> 00:00:42,240 and places them here, 14 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,810 and also the additional keys here like Page Up, Page Down, 15 00:00:45,810 --> 00:00:49,410 that six-key portion of the keyboard. 16 00:00:49,410 --> 00:00:52,170 So, it's all condensed into one section. 17 00:00:52,170 --> 00:00:54,990 But what I'm interested in here for the laptop 18 00:00:54,990 --> 00:00:57,510 is the differences between this and the desktop, 19 00:00:57,510 --> 00:00:59,700 and that's mainly the function key. 20 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:03,330 And so, what this allows us to do is it allows us 21 00:01:03,330 --> 00:01:08,330 to have secondary functions on these function keys up here. 22 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,840 And sometimes on a mobile device 23 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,630 you'll see that listed as second, 24 00:01:12,630 --> 00:01:14,670 and you might even have that in addition 25 00:01:14,670 --> 00:01:16,620 to the function key. 26 00:01:16,620 --> 00:01:19,140 And that's more for industrial devices 27 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:21,270 and more specialized devices, 28 00:01:21,270 --> 00:01:23,340 but for the laptop we have the Fn key, 29 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:24,660 that's the function key, 30 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:27,423 that allows these to have secondary purposes. 31 00:01:28,470 --> 00:01:32,190 For example, F2, the F2 key, 32 00:01:32,190 --> 00:01:34,260 that might get you into the BIOS, 33 00:01:34,260 --> 00:01:36,780 or it might open a particular application, 34 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:39,000 or you could bind it with a macro. 35 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,490 It could do a lot of things in the operating system, 36 00:01:41,490 --> 00:01:45,300 but if we press the function key and F2 37 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:48,903 what it does is it reduces the brightness of the screen. 38 00:01:50,730 --> 00:01:55,560 And you'll notice I just pressed the function key 39 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,690 and the backlight came on for this keypad. 40 00:01:57,690 --> 00:02:00,180 That's a nice feature of a keypad on a laptop, 41 00:02:00,180 --> 00:02:02,760 on some laptops, but not necessarily different 42 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,220 than keyboards from a desktop computer. 43 00:02:05,220 --> 00:02:08,070 And you get lots of bells and whistles like that on laptops. 44 00:02:08,070 --> 00:02:09,920 But again, that main thing I'm looking for here 45 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:13,080 is the function, the additional functionality. 46 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,930 So, for example, the additional functionality on this laptop 47 00:02:15,930 --> 00:02:20,610 we have the F1 key equals question mark, which means help. 48 00:02:20,610 --> 00:02:21,480 And that's standard. 49 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,780 F1 is generally help for most systems, 50 00:02:24,780 --> 00:02:27,810 but the F2 and F3 keys are used 51 00:02:27,810 --> 00:02:30,123 to reduce and increase brightness. 52 00:02:31,196 --> 00:02:35,370 The F4 key is used to toggle between the main monitor 53 00:02:35,370 --> 00:02:37,620 and an external monitor, or both. 54 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:39,570 And that's very common on laptops, 55 00:02:39,570 --> 00:02:42,480 that it's F4 that'll be the toggle key 56 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,850 for multiple monitors. 57 00:02:44,850 --> 00:02:46,920 And then you have a lot of other options here, 58 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:51,920 playback and volume, and also muting and wireless. 59 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:55,080 Let's show an example of a couple of those 60 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,670 in action right now. 61 00:02:56,670 --> 00:02:58,350 I'm in Windows 8 on this, 62 00:02:58,350 --> 00:03:01,620 I'm just gonna go to the desktop area. 63 00:03:01,620 --> 00:03:04,050 I have my website open here. 64 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:07,500 And by the way, you'll notice there's a lot of other videos 65 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:10,110 on my website in the A+ section 66 00:03:10,110 --> 00:03:11,850 so feel free to check those out, 67 00:03:11,850 --> 00:03:14,940 but let's show a couple of these keys here. 68 00:03:14,940 --> 00:03:17,010 And the first one will show the brightness. 69 00:03:17,010 --> 00:03:21,360 If we press the function key at the same time, 70 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,040 hold down the function key, 71 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,100 and then press the reduce brightness button, 72 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:28,380 which normally is F2, 73 00:03:28,380 --> 00:03:31,410 you'll see that the brightness goes way down. 74 00:03:31,410 --> 00:03:33,783 And you can see that display. 75 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,680 You can see how it's modified there, okay? 76 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,680 Sometimes the lamp on an LCD starts to go bad, 77 00:03:46,890 --> 00:03:50,880 and if someone was to reduce the brightness all the way 78 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:52,710 they might not see the screen at all. 79 00:03:52,710 --> 00:03:54,600 So, always check that, check and make sure 80 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,190 that the brightness is up. 81 00:03:56,190 --> 00:03:58,500 As laptops get older, as the displays get older, 82 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:00,090 the lamp might fail, 83 00:04:00,090 --> 00:04:01,983 and so you always wanna check that. 84 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,420 Increase that guy and make sure that you can see 85 00:04:06,420 --> 00:04:10,230 what's going on there before you troubleshoot any further. 86 00:04:10,230 --> 00:04:14,013 Another one, the volume, we have our volume keys here. 87 00:04:15,270 --> 00:04:18,240 And if we hold down the function key 88 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,550 and press the down volume you can see that decreases 89 00:04:20,550 --> 00:04:25,550 on the screen, increase the volume, okay? 90 00:04:25,830 --> 00:04:27,727 So, sometimes a person might say, 91 00:04:27,727 --> 00:04:30,240 "Hey, I can't hear anything from the speakers." 92 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,910 Well, one of the first things you wanna check is the volume. 93 00:04:32,910 --> 00:04:35,610 Make sure that the volume is high enough 94 00:04:35,610 --> 00:04:37,680 where it can be heard from the speakers, 95 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,690 especially in a noisy environment. 96 00:04:39,690 --> 00:04:42,390 And also check that mute button, 97 00:04:42,390 --> 00:04:46,020 on this laptop the F11 key is the mute. 98 00:04:46,020 --> 00:04:47,820 So, that's a quick way of getting 99 00:04:47,820 --> 00:04:49,470 the volume down to nothing, 100 00:04:49,470 --> 00:04:53,340 and that is something you wanna check as well. 101 00:04:53,340 --> 00:04:56,730 You'll see that real quickly 'cause in the notification area 102 00:04:56,730 --> 00:05:00,930 you'll see on the sound icon there's a red line, 103 00:05:00,930 --> 00:05:02,700 a circle with a red line through it, 104 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:06,180 meaning that the volume is muted. 105 00:05:06,180 --> 00:05:09,870 So, if we hit that again that disappears 106 00:05:09,870 --> 00:05:11,343 and we get our volume back. 107 00:05:12,270 --> 00:05:15,180 When troubleshooting the sound on a laptop 108 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:18,390 check the obvious, check the actual volume. 109 00:05:18,390 --> 00:05:20,580 You can check that in the operating system, 110 00:05:20,580 --> 00:05:23,610 but you can also check it physically on the laptop. 111 00:05:23,610 --> 00:05:25,350 And that's usually associated with one 112 00:05:25,350 --> 00:05:27,540 of the function keys on the laptop. 113 00:05:27,540 --> 00:05:30,600 And you might have a slider also on an older laptop, 114 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,850 so check the actual volume 115 00:05:32,850 --> 00:05:36,360 and make sure that it's not turned all the way down or muted 116 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,480 before you do any further troubleshooting. 117 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,850 And another one, very important, is the wireless. 118 00:05:41,850 --> 00:05:45,330 People hit this, I see this all the time. 119 00:05:45,330 --> 00:05:47,100 People come in, "I can't connect to anything, 120 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:48,570 I don't know what's going on." 121 00:05:48,570 --> 00:05:51,520 And if you hit the wireless button 122 00:05:52,410 --> 00:05:55,800 you'll see that you get an X, a red circle with a white X, 123 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,940 on that wireless icon in the notification area. 124 00:05:59,940 --> 00:06:01,800 So, that generally, the first thing you wanna do 125 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:03,660 on a laptop, press that function key 126 00:06:03,660 --> 00:06:05,210 and press that wireless button. 127 00:06:06,330 --> 00:06:10,110 And then give it a minute to recheck and enable 128 00:06:10,110 --> 00:06:12,180 and connect to the wireless. 129 00:06:12,180 --> 00:06:14,883 So, always check that, that's very important. 130 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:19,350 And so, that's the basic keyboard functionality. 131 00:06:19,350 --> 00:06:22,200 You can go into laptops a ton with keyboards, 132 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,930 but other than that the keyboard functionality 133 00:06:24,930 --> 00:06:28,050 is a lot the same as a desktop computer. 134 00:06:28,050 --> 00:06:30,840 You might have little bells and whistles here and there 135 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:34,380 that make it different from one device to the next, 136 00:06:34,380 --> 00:06:36,570 from one manufacturer to the next, 137 00:06:36,570 --> 00:06:38,280 but that's the general idea. 138 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:40,740 You want to know what these function keys are 139 00:06:40,740 --> 00:06:42,120 and what they do. 140 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,120 And another one here, function key and F1, 141 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,590 that brings up help. 142 00:06:46,590 --> 00:06:48,840 And we're in the browser Google Chrome, 143 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:51,870 so it actually brought up the Chrome Help page. 144 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:53,370 So, that's pretty cool. 145 00:06:53,370 --> 00:06:55,680 So, F1 or function and F1 can get you 146 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,430 to a lot of help options within browsers, 147 00:06:59,430 --> 00:07:00,960 within your application you're working in, 148 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,610 or just in Windows. 149 00:07:02,610 --> 00:07:04,200 So, here we have the touchpad, 150 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,670 and that's the other part of a laptop 151 00:07:05,670 --> 00:07:07,710 that makes it different from a desktop. 152 00:07:07,710 --> 00:07:09,690 And this takes the place of a mouse. 153 00:07:09,690 --> 00:07:12,330 You have instead of moving the mouse 154 00:07:12,330 --> 00:07:17,010 you move your finger over the touchpad itself, 155 00:07:17,010 --> 00:07:18,810 move your finger by dragging, 156 00:07:18,810 --> 00:07:21,150 and you can see the cursor moves. 157 00:07:21,150 --> 00:07:22,500 And you have your two buttons, 158 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:24,690 your primary click and your alternate click. 159 00:07:24,690 --> 00:07:26,940 And you can switch these if you want 160 00:07:26,940 --> 00:07:28,620 depending if you're righty or lefty, 161 00:07:28,620 --> 00:07:31,950 but generally people will call this the click 162 00:07:31,950 --> 00:07:33,840 and the right-click. 163 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,213 And so, these work in the same way. 164 00:07:39,930 --> 00:07:43,170 We can hover on something and click 165 00:07:43,170 --> 00:07:46,240 to bring up that page, or we can right-click 166 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:50,580 to bring up the right-click, or alternate click, menu, 167 00:07:50,580 --> 00:07:51,693 as you see here. 168 00:07:52,950 --> 00:07:54,540 But what's more important is the functionality 169 00:07:54,540 --> 00:07:55,833 of the touchpad itself. 170 00:07:56,730 --> 00:08:00,270 You can touch and drag to move the cursor around, 171 00:08:00,270 --> 00:08:03,873 and on this particular guy you can tap as well too. 172 00:08:05,910 --> 00:08:09,720 You don't have to necessarily click on something. 173 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,710 Just before we clicked on a link 174 00:08:12,660 --> 00:08:15,480 by using the main-click button, 175 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,010 but on this touchpad you can just tap 176 00:08:19,170 --> 00:08:20,670 and that'll click the link for you. 177 00:08:20,670 --> 00:08:22,920 So, it's tapping just like on a mobile device, 178 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,043 like a smartphone or a tablet, and works the same way. 179 00:08:27,270 --> 00:08:28,350 And that's a little easier 180 00:08:28,350 --> 00:08:33,350 and uses less energy than actually clicking this device, 181 00:08:34,260 --> 00:08:35,943 so economy of motion there. 182 00:08:37,290 --> 00:08:41,100 Now, the other thing though is you can use the touchpad 183 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,470 on a lot of laptops now with multiple fingers. 184 00:08:43,470 --> 00:08:46,800 So, for example, with one finger 185 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,640 we're moving the mouse cursor around. 186 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,840 We can just call it a cursor 187 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,970 'cause there's really no mouse involved here. 188 00:08:53,970 --> 00:08:56,313 With two fingers we can scroll, 189 00:08:59,070 --> 00:09:02,613 and scroll the webpage, or whatever document you're in. 190 00:09:03,510 --> 00:09:04,710 And there's other options. 191 00:09:04,710 --> 00:09:07,140 You can use three fingers or four fingers 192 00:09:07,140 --> 00:09:10,920 to do various swiping and moving of applications, 193 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,310 and that'll depend on the operating system you're using 194 00:09:14,310 --> 00:09:17,190 and the laptop you're using, the touchpad that you're using. 195 00:09:17,190 --> 00:09:19,860 Another example, we can swipe all the way 196 00:09:19,860 --> 00:09:24,720 from the right outside of the touchpad and swipe over, 197 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:26,910 and that'll bring up the Charms Bar. 198 00:09:26,910 --> 00:09:29,190 And so, now we can use the Charms Bar 199 00:09:29,190 --> 00:09:30,993 to do what we want here as well. 200 00:09:33,450 --> 00:09:38,450 If we hit the Windows key to go to the Start screen 201 00:09:39,510 --> 00:09:42,570 we can go all the way up into the corner, 202 00:09:42,570 --> 00:09:45,750 and if we drag up into the upper-left corner 203 00:09:45,750 --> 00:09:49,173 we'll see the desktop. 204 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,380 And we can just tap that to bring that up. 205 00:09:52,380 --> 00:09:55,570 So, there's a lot of functionality here where we can 206 00:09:56,430 --> 00:09:59,700 make use of Windows just with the touchpad, 207 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:01,560 and you can get external touchpads as well 208 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:03,690 that connect via USB. 209 00:10:03,690 --> 00:10:06,270 And so, there's a lot of possibilities with this, 210 00:10:06,270 --> 00:10:07,770 and especially on the Mac too. 211 00:10:07,770 --> 00:10:11,190 There's a lot of two, three, and four-finger possibilities 212 00:10:11,190 --> 00:10:13,863 when it comes to working with the touchpad. 213 00:10:15,210 --> 00:10:17,670 So, there's a little bit about the keyboard functionality 214 00:10:17,670 --> 00:10:19,383 and touchpad functionality. 215 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,630 Remember to always check those function keys. 216 00:10:24,630 --> 00:10:27,480 If something's not working check those function keys first. 217 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,560 Check the brightness, check the mute, check the volume, 218 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:34,290 check that wireless, very important. 219 00:10:34,290 --> 00:10:36,930 And watch the icons in the notification area 220 00:10:36,930 --> 00:10:38,430 to see if there's a, 221 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:40,800 if the problem was resolved quickly 222 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,610 just by using that function key combination. 223 00:10:44,610 --> 00:10:47,520 One other thing you might notice that, oh, 224 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,020 we talked about the numeric keypad. 225 00:10:49,020 --> 00:10:51,690 Some laptops will have a full numeric keypad. 226 00:10:51,690 --> 00:10:54,120 Other laptops, and you don't see this as often now, 227 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,390 but other laptops will put the numbers over here 228 00:10:57,390 --> 00:10:59,070 on top of these letters. 229 00:10:59,070 --> 00:11:02,280 And you can use the function key with the numbers. 230 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,280 So, the I might be the number two or something, 231 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,060 and so you press the function key and I to get number two. 232 00:11:09,060 --> 00:11:10,350 So, you have that possibility. 233 00:11:10,350 --> 00:11:12,420 And plus you could turn that on and off 234 00:11:12,420 --> 00:11:14,040 with the Number Lock key 235 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,220 so that you don't have to use the function key, 236 00:11:17,220 --> 00:11:19,500 so that's a possibility as well. 237 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:20,760 And sometimes you'll get people 238 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,807 with those types of older laptops that'll say, 239 00:11:22,807 --> 00:11:25,740 "Hey, I'm typing but I'm not getting all letters. 240 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:26,820 I'm getting letters and numbers." 241 00:11:26,820 --> 00:11:29,250 And that's because that secondary function, 242 00:11:29,250 --> 00:11:30,870 those numbers that are here, 243 00:11:30,870 --> 00:11:32,940 has been turned on with the Number Lock key. 244 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:37,800 So, know the Number Lock key and also that function key. 245 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,040 And if you ever have some problems with the trackpad, 246 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,220 sometimes people have issues with the trackpad. 247 00:11:44,220 --> 00:11:46,143 It could just require a cleaning. 248 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:52,380 So, you use your 50-50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and water. 249 00:11:52,380 --> 00:11:56,100 Make sure you apply that to a dry, lint-free cloth first, 250 00:11:56,100 --> 00:12:00,000 and then rub that on here just to clean it off. 251 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,210 Also, sometimes the driver might need to be updated 252 00:12:03,210 --> 00:12:04,620 depending on the OS that you're using 253 00:12:04,620 --> 00:12:06,360 or the application that you're using 254 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,430 to make it work properly. 255 00:12:08,430 --> 00:12:10,620 So, there's a couple things about the touchpad 256 00:12:10,620 --> 00:12:13,200 and the keyboard, what to look out for on a laptop. 257 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:14,900 And that's it for this sub-lesson.