Using keyboard to perform mouse functions

Have you been in a situation when your mouse isn’t working and you don’t know how to use just your keyboard to do stuffs in your computer? Well, no need to worry even if you don’t have a mouse. There is a way you can use keyboard to perform your mouse function. MouseKeys is a keyboard feature that enables you to use the numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer, to click, double-click, and drag. MouseKeys is designed for crisis such as mouse stopped working suddenly or sent for a repair or something like that. MouseKeys allows you to use the numeric keypad to control the mouse pointer.

If you want to use the numeric keypad for data entry as well as for navigation, you can set the MouseKeys to be activated by pressing NUM LOCK.

Here’s what you need to do to turn on MouseKeys:

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Accessibility Options.
2. On the Mouse tab, under MouseKeys, select the Use MouseKeys check box. (To turn off MouseKeys, clear the Use MouseKeys check box.)
3. Press ok

Now, when you’ll press the arrow keys of the numeric keypad you’ll see that the mouse cursor will move to the respective positions.

Note: The shortcut for MouseKeys is: Press left ALT + left SHIFT + NUM LOCK