Microsoft KB Archive/43093

Use of the /K Switch When Starting Word

PSS ID Number: Q43093 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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Starting Word by typing WORD/K causes enhanced 101-key keyboards to behave similarly to an original PC keyboard by changing how the keyboard is mapped by the Word program. This remapping allows some memory-resident programs to run better with Word.

WORD/K disables the F11 and F12 function keys and the separate cursor control keys on an AT (enhanced) keyboard. It also works well in situations where the enhanced keyboard does not detect a key up event (the depression and release of a key produce different scan codes known commonly as either a key up or key down event).

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