How to use the numeric keypad

[Shane Geiger]

I love my keyboard, and I know that I would eventually have a severe
case of carpel tunnel syndrome without it. (Just a few weeks with
a standard keyboard is hell!)

Anyway, I love a feature of this keyboard: The ability to move the
pointer with the numeric keypad.

I have figured out on my own how one copies and pastes, but I still
want to find out how to do two more things.

My method of copying is to click once with the 5 key, move over
the area I want to highlight, and then press shift-5 to highlight
the area.

Recently, I accidentally did something that showed me that my keypad
has the ability to highlight as I move the pointer. As I would press
the 4 key, the highlighted text would expand to the left...and I could
highlight text in any direction merely by holding down any key
but the 5/click key. I wish I knew how I did this so that I could
do it whenever I feel like it.

More important than learning that, though, is to learn how to double
click with my numeric keypad. I am without a mouse on my computer, and
I have learned to get by with only my keyboard (thankfully it has the
ability to move the pointer with the numeric keypad!) but would like
to learn to double click. (I think I even did it a couple of
times--again, accidentally.) ;)

Would you know how to do these things with the numeric keypad of
Microsoft's most excellent ergonomic keyboard? I would greatly
appreciate your help.

Sincerely,

Shane Geiger
Norfolk, Nebraska

PS Does anyone know whether MS has another model of this keyboard?
I would like to make this keyboard bend a bit more when I get the
urge to do.