No. Mine has other functions (which I never use): up, down, left, right, pg down, home and end. I never use them though.
When you’re typing lots of numbers, it’s easier and quicker to use the number pad.
Even though , on this laptop, the keypad apparently serves no other function and there is no indication either on the screen or keyboard I was wrong to say the Num Lock key doesn’t work. Apparently it does but I only discovered this yesterday when the numbers didn’t work and I had to press the Num Lock key. I don’t know if this is new because of an upgrade or always existed - really thought I had tested it out. However even though the keys are not marked they do perform other functions such as arrow keys etc.
Seems stupid to me.
I used to have a problem with Win10 where it would not remember the last position of the Num Lock key and it had to be pressed every time at boot up but this seems to have ben solved in later upgrades but not having an indications is, as you say, really annoying.
I have the same problem with this new laptop (Windows 10 as on my old one), which for some reason doesn’t have an indicator light to show that the NUMLOCK is operative.
Worse, it sometimes disables itself for no apparent reason and when I try to quickly type in some numbers nothing happens.
The other related problem with this HP laptop is that you can’t keep the keys illuminated. They light up when you press something, but then go off. OK in a lit room, but if dark you’ve got to press something first. I use the shift key as it doesn’t type anything! I suppose I’ll get used to it in time.
