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I just recently purchased a Macally BTkey bluetooth keyboard for my mac. Does anybody know if i can force the function keys to work like the one on my macbook pro. The only main keys i want are the keys for itunes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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The F keys don't get picked up? That's strange, are you sure you just don't have the iTunes and Dashboard functions set to work with the Fn key?
 
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Thats part of the problem. It doesn't have a fn key. It just has the normal f keys. What im wanting to have the f keys do is work like the play/pause, fastforward, and rewind keys for itunes. I tried making my own keyboard shortcuts for it but it only works when i have itunes selected.
 
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Go to System Preferences > Keyboard. On the first tab, right in the middle, there is a checkbox for the option to use the fn key.

When this option is NOT checked, then the F keys work e.g. for iTunes.
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That works for the mac keyboard but doesn't seem to do anything for my macally bluetooth keyboard.
 
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