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I believe there are still a number of applications where Scroll Lock is useful, most notably Microsoft Excel.



how so?


With ScrLk off, the arrow keys move the cursor (active cell). With it on, the arrow keys scroll the window contents instead.

(I believe this is actually the original purpose of ScrLk, but most applications these days don’t use it.)


That functionality would actually be useful in all sorts of games, but that's probably a lost cause at this point. We've settled on other paradigms.




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