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This is my 15th year of anti laptops (can you guess my first IBM compat was a laptop in 1990). Real computers have pretty much one function per key. Laptops usually have extra key often called Fn (and often in a different colour) that you press to activate the command printed on the underside of the key.
Just to make life difficult MS has started doing this on their keyboards. But on a MS keyboard Fn makes the function keys work properly (they are office specific as standard now). Laptops used Fn to make few keys do the work of the normal 101 keys. So I don't even know if you are talking about Fn for laptops or Fn for stupid MSOffice (where F11 is Save). A picture is always worth a thousand words.
Dell have their own forums. Where only dell people hang out. Ask there
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/
I'm trying to find a picture of your keyboard at Dell but they keep trying to give me 15% of if I buy one. Lucky your second post gave sufficient details to identify your model. But your case as a Service Tag on it. Use that in future posts you may make as it allows us to know your exact model and options you took. Of course every company but dell put their manuals on the download page. Dell has it in a different section.
Well reading uour manual that I just downloaded. Page 32 has your answer. Fn + F11.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1000/en/Y69601LRs.pdf
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"charlie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3a2801c522ed$855a0530$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> sorry. I hit send by accident. NOWHERE can I find any
> actual picture or diagram or list of how the ORIGINAL Fkeys
> are supposed to work. I'm real sorry here but I have spent
> 3 f'ing hours looking through absolutely everything. so
> please don't assume that because an owner has the owner's
> manual, that an answer is provided. I wish you could
> access my index: i have been through literally 100s of
> entries.
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>>You have the manual for your computer not us. Programs can
> block anything they want but all games I have honour the
> volume keys. But your answer is in your computer manual.
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>>"charlie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:51dc01c522e9$bd86ce60$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>>I want to control sound during a Myst game w/out having to
>>> click the taskbar for volume icon. On my laptop, F10 has a
>>> "louder" icon, and F11 has a "softer" icon. Can I use
>>> these during a video game, and if so do I hold another key
>>> down first while using them?
>>.
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