Studio 1558 laptop doesnt have a pause/ break key

It is very strange that Dell decided to remove the pause/ break key from the studio 1558 laptop. There are quite a few important programs that people work on that have ctrl+break as a shortcut. I think Dell should have explicitly mentioned at the time of purchase that the pause/ break key has been removed from the keyboard. Otherwise, who can guess that such a problem exists in the laptop keyboard?

What are the alternative solutions for this except for using an external keyboard?