Using Your Apple Keyboard with Microsoft Windows

The top keyboard is a Mac keyboard and the bottom is a typical Windows keyboard. The blue highlighted keys have unique functions specific to the operating system for which they are designed. Some of the keys on the Mac keyboard are temporarily reassigned to a different function when you start in Windows on your Mac. Specific details are given in the tables later in this article.

Example Mac keyboard

Example Windows keyboard

How Mac keyboards are mapped for the Numeric keypad?

Apple external keyboards with built-in numeric keypads as well as original MacBook Pro keyboards provide the same functionality as Microsoft-compatible numeric Keypad

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Function	Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad	Apple Pro keyboard (with Num Lock off)	Original MacBook Pro keyboard
Page Up	Page Up	9	fn + ▴
Page Down	Page Down	3	fn + ▾
Insert	fn + Enter	0
Decimal Point	.	.	. 1
Delete	fn + .		fn + .1
Up arrow	8 + ▴	8	▴1
Down arrow	2 + ▾	2	▾1
Left arrow	4 + ◂	4	◂ 1
Right arrow	6 + ▸	6	▸ 1
Home	Home	7	fn + ◂
End	End	1

How Microsoft Windows Function keys are mapped to OS X Extended Function Keys?

Key Name	Apple keyboard with numeric keypad	Apple USB & Wireless keyboard	MacBook Pro keyboard	Apple Pro keyboard
Reduce display brightness	✓	✓	✓	F14
Increase display brightness	✓	✓	✓	F15
Mission Control
Launchpad
Dashboard
Function	✓	✓	✓
Keyboard brightness on/off toggle			✓
Reduce keyboard brightness			✓
Increase keyboard brightness			✓
Play/Pause	✓	✓	✓
Previous track	✓	✓	✓
Next track	✓	✓	✓
Mute toggle	✓	✓	✓	✓
Volume down	✓	✓	✓	✓
Volume up	✓	✓	✓	✓
Media eject	✓	✓	✓	✓
Media eject (2nd optical drive)	Option + ⏏	Option + ⏏	Option + ⏏	Option + ⏏