Caps lock - what is the fecking point?

[visions of Sophie typing at the keyboard, with her head 180 degrees the other way] ? Do you not look at the screen while you're typing? Awwww...! ❤️

No, I look at the keyboard ? I never learned to touch type.

GOd knows. On my PC I've disabled it. I can't work out how to do that on my macbook [i'm such an apple dunce]

Woo hoo - I've disabled it! Go to System preferences in your Apple menu, choose Keyboard and Mouse under hardware, select keyboard, click Modiefier Keys and change to No Action in the drop-down menu by Caps Lock.

Ha! ?

You star!

My H uses the caps lock key all the time, in place of the shift key to capitalise the first letter of a word. I have no idea why he does this, but no matter how many times I tell him that it's much easier just to hold down shift he still does it. It doesn't really affect me but annoys me soooo much.

Oo I can answer this one!!

I used to hate caps lock until we had to start filling in the Stamp Duty forms online and they had to be in all block capitals. Then it was a godsend ?

For some stupid reason I use the capslock key. Always have and I used to work as a typist and now work as a programmer so am at a pc all day. No idea why i use it but i couldn't not use it now.

I never saw the point of number lock either. someone at work did tell me what is was for, but it was such a useful reason i've forgotten...

I would have agreed till I joined the civil service. Our IT systems came off the ark so I'd struggle at work without it but it's nearly as annoying as the number lock when you're in the real world ?

It's so feckwitted accountants can send shouty emails to their wives. Apparently.

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? at those lazy ass programmers making the users ensure caps-lock case requirements are met rather than doing things properly themselves! Begger's belief. I was using a webform the other day that had a text box for a date, which specified that the date had to be in "DD/MM/YY" type format - yes, they made the user type the slashes, wouldn't accept a four-digit year input, and hadn't bothered to provide some nice click-a-calendar functionality.

All those programmers will be shot first at the Revolution! etc. ?

I personally don't see the point of num lock as I use the numbers above the letters rather than the ones at the right of the keyboard, but anyone at work who's tried to use my keyboard has used the numbers on the right and they get cross cos I don't have num lock on. I don't know why I appear to the only person in the world who doesn't use those numbers but someone suggested it could be because I'm left handed.

I've seen people typing using caps lock in place of shift and it fills me with an irrational anger ?