I have this Dell Dual USB/PS2 Keyboard with built-in Touchpad Mouse P/N 0TH827, but it doesn't have an Insert key.
Is there another way to press the Insert key?
I have this Dell Dual USB/PS2 Keyboard with built-in Touchpad Mouse P/N 0TH827, but it doesn't have an Insert key.
Is there another way to press the Insert key?
The 0
key at the bottom of the numpad on the upper-right of your keyboard will function as an Insert key when Num Lock is turned off. That is why it is labeled with both 0
and Ins
on the key itself.
Note that the Shift key acts as a temporary toggle on the Num Lock state when you press one of the keypad keys (just like Shift acts as a toggle on Caps Lock for letters). Therefore, when Num Lock is on, pressing Shift+Numpad-0 will act as Insert.
You can use the On-Screen Keyboard program built into Windows to toggle the Insert key.
Install AutoHotkey and, apart from all the other amazing uses for it, you can remap the insert key to any key or key-combination you like!
For example this:
^i::insert
... would remap it to Control + I.
Whenever remapping keys, be sure to consider what other programs might be affected by the remapping, and try to keep any custom remapping clear of them. For example, Control + Z would be a very bad idea :)
Scroll Lock
, which isn't ever used, or Pause|Break
, since the only thing it's used for is Windows + Pause|Break
, which opens the System Information window. Scroll Lock
is already a toggling key, so it would remap really well, since Insert
also toggles.
Windows key
, I am not sure the example chosen in this answer is appropriate...
Commented
Apr 26, 2017 at 7:57
Coming late to the party, I know, but I had a similar issue and I wanted to share my solution.
So, I have this HP laptop and for some reason they've decided to remove the insert key. I "live" in Windows, but I spend a lot of time in terminals on remote servers, linux of course, so ctrl+c and ctr+v are not an option and I have to rely on the good old ctr+insert and shift+insert to do the job.
After some time spent searching for alternatives, the numpad-0 was not really such a good/handy solution, I've found that you can remap keycodes by fiddling with the registries. What's even better there's this little tool called SharpKeys that makes the job even easier.
So the solution was to remap a "useless" key, in my case was prt scr, to insert and get my "flow" back. Depending on the situation and preferences one could use some other key.