I have thisDell Dual USB/PS2 Keyboard with built-in Touchpad Mouse P/N 0TH827, but it doesn't have an Insert key.
Is there another way to press the Insert key?
164 Answers
The 0 key at the bottom of the numpad on the upper-right of your keyboard will function as an Insert key when Num Lock is turned off. That is why it is labeled with both 0 and Ins on the key itself.
Note that the Shift key acts as a temporary toggle on the Num Lock state when you press one of the keypad keys (just like Shift acts as a toggle on Caps Lock for letters). Therefore, when Num Lock is on, pressing Shift+Numpad-0 will act as Insert.
You can use the On-Screen Keyboard program built into Windows to toggle the Insert key.
- In Windows 10: Start > Settings > Ease of Access > Keyboard, then turn on On-Screen Keyboard.
- In Windows 8.1: Hit the lower right corner, click Search, type On-Screen Keyboard, then click On-Screen Keyboard.
- In Windows 7: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access > On-Screen Keyboard
Install AutoHotkey and, apart from all the other amazing uses for it, you can remap the insert key to any key or key-combination you like!
For example this:
^i::insert
... would remap it to Control + I.
17Whenever remapping keys, be sure to consider what other programs might be affected by the remapping, and try to keep any custom remapping clear of them. For example, Control + Z would be a very bad idea :)
Coming late to the party, I know, but I had a similar issue and I wanted to share my solution.
So, I have this HP laptop and for some reason they've decided to remove the insert key. I "live" in Windows, but I spend a lot of time in terminals on remote servers, linux of course, so ctrl+c and ctr+v are not an option and I have to rely on the good old ctr+insert and shift+insert to do the job.
After some time spent searching for alternatives, the numpad-0 in not really such a good/handy solution, I've found that you can remap keycodes by fiddling with the registries. What's even better there's this little tool called SharpKeys that makes the job even easier.
So the solution was to remap an "useless" key, in may case was prt scr, to insert and get my "flow" back. Depending on the situation and preferences one could use some other key.
