Turn that Copilot or Scroll Lock key into a media control or extended character. HANDS ON In the era of laptops and tenkeyless keyboards, many of us are living with fewer keys than we had years ago.

If you take a look at your laptop's keyboard, you'll notice that the top row keys have icons printed above, with "F" and a number, like F1, F2, and so on, below each one. These are known as function ...