Nigel - the click mouse button thing can be done with a return or enter, but hey, that's on the right hand side too and I'm trying to spread the load!

It's using the 'enter' key on the keypad that's causing the trouble in my little and ring fingers. My thumb is getting overused on the zero key and my index and middle fingers do the rest of the numbers. I use my left hand for the mouse and tab buttons. When I type text, I spread the load over both hands and use my left thumb for the space bar. I trained as a typist so I'm not chicken pecking across the board. The only overused digit there is my right ring finger for the backspace. I never did get over the habit of correcting as I go - it's how you tell a trained typist from a word processor operator. Typists correct as they go, WPOs rely on autotext and correct at the end to prompts.

The longer I have this pain in my arm, the more I'm convinced it has nothing to do with the RSI I'm experiencing. I get the RSI after a few days at work, entering numbers. The pain in my arm is daily, regardless of task or duty. A week off work and no number punching has still resulted in a painful arm.

Going to see the doc again next week and ask him to refer me to an ortheopedic doctor.

Thanks again.

LTS