How to use Keyboard as a Mouse

If your mouse is not working and you want to wait till you get a new one then you can use your keyboard as a mouse. You can use the numeric keyboard on your keyboard instead of mouse to move the pointer. It is easy to use your mouse as keyboard in Windows using the On Screen Keyboard utility, but it is also possible to do reverse

All you need to do is:
To activate mouse keys all you do is press Alt+Left shift key (the one below the caps lock key) and then Num Lock key. Now you can access your keyboard as a mouse.

Navigation keys for keyboard:

5 - Select
2 - Move down
8 - Move up
4 - Move left
6 - Move right
For double click, just press the plus symbol(+)
For right click, just press the minus symbol (-)
Press 0 and navigate the pointer = selecting the text in a normal keyboard
Pressing * or - and then pressing 5 = right click on your normal mouse (to use 5 to perform the left click action press the / key)

To deactivate just press same key (Alt+Left shift key+num lock)

General Keyboard Shortcuts

Many of them suffers saying that they feel less pain when typing compared to when using mouse. Thus, many desire to avoid mouse as much as possible. Getting familiar with keyboard shortcuts not only help you get the work done faster, but also more efficient.


Below are some general shortcuts for keyboards:

CTRL + C --- Copy
CTRL + Z --- Undo
CTRL + X --- Cut
CTRL + V --- Paste
CTRL + S --- Save
CTRL + Shift --- with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
CTRL+ALT+DEL --- reboots the computer – eventually. First, it'll tell you what's hung up.

CTRL + Right Arrow --- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word
CTRL + Left Arrow --- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word
CTRL + Home --- to the top
CTRL + End --- to the bottom
CTRL --- while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
ALT+F4 --- shuts down the selected program.
ALT +Enter --- View the properties for the selected item
ALT + Tab --- Switch between the open items
ALT + Space bar --- Display the system menu for the active window
F10 --- Activate the menu bar in the active program
F5 --- Update the active window
F6 --- Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop
F4 --- Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer