Solved lost ability to type or use CAP or Num loc keys

Good morning,

Please bear with me on this one. I am in the process of setting up Win 10 on a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 5555). When taking a break from that I decided to clean the area around and including my desktop (HP Pavilion 23-g017c) which runs Win 8.1.

To make a long story short I now have lost the ability to use my ESC, CAP and NumLock keys on the Pavilion Desktop (The last two won't display their lights when depressed). In addition to what I already stated now I can't type in my Office 2013 Word program either.

I cleaned the keyboard with a clean dry cloth. Is there something I could have accidently pressed that would cause these functions to stop working.

Any ideas?

Thanks and regards,

2harts4ever

Restart your computer.

Morning cbwilsha ,

I appreciate your response. However, my wife solved it. Since I posted she asked me if I happened to check the batteries on the key board. I hadn't so I did as she suggested. BINGO ... problem solved.

Her 2 days of computer expertise just shot down my 5 years of computering ...lol

Thanks again,

2harts4ever