This is about the simplest, yet oddest question I've had so far. My boss was desiging a layout on his laptop for fun, he's running WinXP Pro on it, with FMP 6. I also have FMP 6, and I have windows 2000 on my desktop, and WinXP Home on my laptop.

On his computer, the layout that he's created, when you enter text into a text field and want to carry to the next line, it exits the field instead of entering a new line. The same file on both my machines enter new lines. Is this a setting that I can change somewhere? I looked in the application preferences, and nothing jumped out at me. Thanks!

the [RETURN] and [ENTER] keys are not the same!

ENTER submits the field change. RETURN does a line break.

That's why they are labeled differently.

try the NUM LOCK key to change the behavior ?!?

Labeled differently? There is one key here... Labeled 'Enter'... As far as I know, Macs are the only computers to use "Return" on their keyboards, not PCs.

Num Lock has no effect on the 'Enter' key. My numlock is set on my desktop, but not on the laptop both work with either num lock set or unset.

Yeah, the so-called "Enter" key that is just above the right-hand "Shift" key is actually a "Return" key -- Windows keyboards don't make that distinction, although they should, since it's not the same thing. The "Enter" key that you find below the numbers on full-sized keyboards and somewhere else on laptops (mine is on the bottom row on the right) is the actual "Enter" key.

The problem is probably some quirk with laptop keyboard and maybe relates to save space requirements.

PC / Windows make also the distinction between Return and Enter as Macs, but only few programs are programmed to realize that. FM is one of them.

Well, we couldn't find the "Enter" key on the laptop, so he's not working with the files on there anymore. Hopefully when we roll this out, we won't have any other problems with all of our employee laptops... What a mess that would be!