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Given that there is no <Insert> key on the Surface/Type keyboard, what key combination will generate the <Insert> key scan code?
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While a bit of a kludge, leave your window active, click the window key to the 'Start' panel. Drag top or bottom to expose All Apps and open it. Drag all the way right to the ease of use section and it's On-Screen Keyboard. Open it. Drag from the left edge to expose your app. Insert is middle of the right side of the kb. Pause is there too (window +Pause is one of my favs... with no pause key on other easily access kbs on the Surface)
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Sadly Surface Pro 3 Type Keyboard does not have this issue fixed either. It obviously has space for missed buttons (Ins, Right Ctrl, Print Screen and Pause/Break), but Type Cover team decided to ignore the feedback.
If Surface Pro 3 is positioned as laptop replacement (and it is indeed the best device on the market right now that can combine the best of tablet and Ultrabook!) - then its keyboard should mimic laptop keyboard to simplify user transition from laptop to Surface.
But leaving Surface Pro 3 keyboard exactly the same as Surface RT and Surface Pro 2 it looks like keyboard team was thinking only about users that upgrade from one Surface to another. What they did not realize (IMHO) is that even for that small audience adding missing buttons will be an incentive to upgrade!
Greetings all,
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Please fire first the persons responsible for this outrageous INS-idiocy, before they again invent something as brilliant.
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Thanks for this tip. The lack of an insert key has been my biggest complaint about the Surface and it's screen and separate keyboard. I have attached the On-Screen Keyboard to my tool bar so I don't have to do all the above steps. It works quite well. I often need to insert lines in my proprietary software at work and ALT with INSERT key works for this function. What a relief I don't have to search for and pay for another keyboard. Another little hint - I made the keyboard as small as I can to still see the insert key. I can use my attached keyboard and just use the alt/insert key feature when needed. I still hope my separate Surface Pro keyboard will have an up-date to allow some function to act as an insert, but meanwhile, this is an acceptable, if clumsy, solution.
