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Is to make the keys av pag and re pag not work.
You´re welcome.
God.
Posted by: El primer ciego | October 14, 2011 at 11:13 PM
Open excel.
Use the arrow keys.
Press Scroll-Lock.
Use the arrow keys again.
That's what the key is for.
Posted by: Naftali | October 14, 2011 at 11:14 PM
Try having it on/off in Excel and you will find the ultimate answer.
Posted by: Gad D Lord | October 14, 2011 at 11:26 PM
It is used to enable scrolling back through a console's (not shell) history on FreeBSD.
Posted by: Daniel Sobral | October 14, 2011 at 11:31 PM
Ha! N00b.
Posted by: daMax | October 14, 2011 at 11:42 PM
This must be a very young geek if he doesn't know that;)
Posted by: Michał Liszewski | October 14, 2011 at 11:50 PM
Switching keyboard layouts, of course. Alternatively, use as Compose key.
Posted by: ke | October 15, 2011 at 12:09 AM
You can use it for scrolling in console mode :-) Mostly Linux has it disabled, but the last time I used it, FreeBSD had it enabled.
Posted by: nexx | October 15, 2011 at 02:10 AM
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Posted by: Ahmad | October 15, 2011 at 02:33 AM
Yes. I wonder what's scroll lock in the keyboard for?
(http://codedincantation.com/blog/)
Posted by: http://codedincantation.com/blog/ | October 15, 2011 at 03:17 AM
heres a tip:
open excel - press arrow keys
activate scroll lock -press arrow keys again
Posted by: MrJones | October 15, 2011 at 10:29 AM
I know, it's only lock and scroll, but I like it...
Posted by: Bert | October 15, 2011 at 12:30 PM
http://enwp.org/Scroll_lock ;)
Posted by: Waldir | October 15, 2011 at 04:03 PM
I always thought it was for stopping screen from scrolling (on Linux, in text-mode command-line).
Posted by: Steven Kah Hien Wong | October 15, 2011 at 07:57 PM
it's for Locking-Scroll - hehe
Posted by: Wolf | October 15, 2011 at 08:12 PM
Who knows!?
Posted by: Account Deleted | October 16, 2011 at 03:50 AM
haha young padawan! To see much, you still need, but if too much comes in a flash, use the secret power of the scroll lock key.
Posted by: Augusto | October 16, 2011 at 09:38 AM
Scroll in a bsd terminal
Posted by: knut | October 16, 2011 at 04:53 PM
Well... there is a Flash game that was built in order to give that key some use. :)
http://www.kongregate.com/games/devoidgames/scroll-lock
Posted by: Denilson | October 17, 2011 at 05:42 AM
Well, not only in Linux/BSD's - in ALL text environments, including MS-DOS ;)
Posted by: Dot | October 17, 2011 at 05:35 PM
In early days programs dumped ll their messages to the console. When the console was a printer, it was OK, but later on the screen replaced it so only the last 24 lines were visible. The Scroll Lock was invented to stop messages scrolling on the screen so the admins could look at them.
Posted by: Sandor | October 17, 2011 at 06:58 PM