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What is scroll lock for?

April 26, 2017Computers hardware internet laptops laptops & notebooks lock notebooks scroll

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What is scroll lock for?

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It has different functions in different programs (it can be handy in Excel, for example), but was originally so that you could scroll text in early computers with the arrow keys instead of moving line-by-line (using the up or down keys) or character-by-character (using the left or right keys).