I have just received a Vostro 3550.  Everythng OK until I came to look for a numeric keypad. Normamly on laptops, Ihave not had a separate numeric keypad, but used the overlaid one via the fn key, but that facility seems to be missing.  I'm not worried about the lack of a numeric keypad function as such, but I would like to be able to use the Alt+nnn facility to generate extra characters such as é.  Anyone know if this is this possible?

Thanks.