Pat,
I'm the Tech Support for my college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

On most keyboards, it's located in the control keys section of the keyboard, above the arrow keys or right of the function keys. On a Mac computer, to toggle scroll lock on and off, press the F14 key or the Shift + F14 key combination. If that does not turn off scroll lock, try pressing Command + F14. Keys: Required: Variant: The key or key combination that you want to send to the application, as text. Wait: Optional: Variant: True to have Microsoft Excel wait for the keys to be processed before returning control to the macro. False (or omitted) to continue running the macro without waiting for the keys to be processed. There isn’t a dedicated Num Lock key on the Apple Wired Keyboards, and that applies to many of the third party USB keyboards built for Macs too. However, you can achieve the same function by hitting the CLEAR button on the numeric keyboard. You may need to hit Shift+CLEAR instead, depending on your individual keyboard and settings.

I'm here to report this problem on two Intel Mac Minis under BOTH 10.4.11 and 10.5.3. I thought upgrading from Tiger to Leopard (Archive & Install) might fix it, but it didn't. 10.4.11 is the only version of Tiger I saw the problem on; my users don't know if it occurred under earlier versions.

After the Leopard upgrade didn't help, I deleted Office 2004 and reinstalled: Delete the MS Office folder from Applications; remove the Microsoft User Data Folder; delete all preferences iwth the following in the name: ms, microsoft, office, word, excel. Then I installed Office 2004 from our original install CD, and ran MS Autoupdate until it reported no more updates.

Didn't help.

The issue manifests as follows: can't type characters or use Tab key. Sometimes the user can recover by clicking on a different cell and back. Sometimes that causes Excel to crash (application stops running and disappears from the screen).

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Three times today, it shut the computer off entirely. The user had to boot up again. We've check the computer; no hardware issues found, and it is entirely stable in all other applications.

I will send System Profiles from the two minis. Unfortunately I only have Leopard Profiles; I didn't run System Profiler while the computers still had Leopard on them.

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Thank you for your interest and support on this!

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David