The full stop on my mum's laptop has died; can I assign the fullstop to another key?

[KatyMac]

I'm assuming not, or that it will be unbelievably difficult to do - but I thought I'd ask TIA

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Pressing Alt and 46 together makes a full stop on mine.

Nope that doesn't work At least holding Alt down while I press 4 then 6 or 6 then 4 doesn't work Ah just discovered the return button doesn't work either

Oh dear, how old is the laptop?

It might be worth buying a plug in keyboard for it.

4 years or so

I've not had one that's lasted as long as that , but if it's otherwise ok, Wanda's suggestion sounds good.

Until then you could google 'full stop' and copy and paste it! :)

On my iMac the keyboard full stop doesn't work (spilt a glass of water over it) so I have an on screen keyboard (keyboard viewer - you could Google it) that I push to the side of the screen so only the end with the full stop is visible. It's a bit of a pain but doable. Email addresses are the most annoying.

I'm leaning towards a new one tbh - it's so annoying

If you can switch to number pad, then there may be a full stop on that.

I recommend clients get QWERTY + number pad on laptops.

Personally (as I have a number of different brand devices around the house, I've bought multimedia USB keyboards in the past, at under a fiver each, so) I always have the same layout and can type OK even in the dark.

Of course, lots of people don't want things plugged into their laptop, but you can now get some very thin "roll up" USB keyboards which might be an option if a keyboard develops a fault, keys are lost, etc.

PS Most of my kit is 10 years old! Found a box the other day (one of the 12 that hadn't been thrown before moving home) running Windows 98SE !!

We still have a machine running that NG, and a brand new Macbook Air.

New computer, I think......too lazy to fix it