A couple of months ago I was desparately looking for something similar and didn't realize it had been removed. I had to opt for the bluetooth numeric keypad on my MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz intel core 2 duo with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, for some of those functions. It works pretty well for the Finale simple entry and other things, but adds more laptop footprint and somewhat defeats the purpose of a laptop.

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>________________________________
> From: John Howell <John.Howell@vt.e...>
>To: finale@shsu...
>Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Finale] MM Songwriter
>
>At 10:13 PM -0800 1/27/12, Dick Hauser wrote:
>>Today I advised a friend to purchase MM
>>Songwriter after I'd tried a demo on my iMac.
>>As we went through the tutorial for Songwriter
>>on their MacBook (2.16GHz intel Core 2 Duo
>>10.6.8)  we were not able to invoke the numeric
>>keypad using the designated function key.  This
>>was during the simple entry tutorial where one
>>sets a different note value using the number pad
>>from extended keyboards.  Anyone know how to get
>>the functionality of the number keypad for
>>simple entry in Songwriter on a MacBook (other
>>than pressing the "NumLoc" function key so the
>>little green light stays on)?  Songwriter has a
>>pull down for keyboard sets and laptop is one of
>>them, but we can't select that (it reverts back
>>to "default".
>
>
>Dick:  Are you aware that Apple removed the
>embedded keypad function from its laptops a
>couple of years ago, just as they removed floppy
>disk support and drives much longer ago than
>that?  It might be necessary to add a USB keypad
>as a peripheral to use that function.  I really
>miss that NumLoc function, but it's gone, and
>it's either there on your own computer or it
>isn't.
>
>This was discussed very recently on the SibList,
>and there's some confusion about it, but the
>confusion may be on my part (as it often is).
>
>John
>
>
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