Period key does nothing on Mac keyboard without numberpad I have an iMac with a wireless keyboard with no number pad. I am using Blender 2.78.

In one of the absolute beginner videos it says that if I turn on 'Emulate Numpad' then the keyboard's normal period '.' key should function to re-centre the view to the selected object (after I have used shift and middle mouse to pan across).

But when I press the period key it doesn't seem to do anything.

I have checked in User Preferences &gt; Input and I can see Outliner > Show Active has a mapping to '.'



Is something set up wrong or am I misunderstanding what this key is supposed to do?
You can't tell just by looking at it, but it's set to Numpad period. Remap it to regular period and you should be fine. (Emulate Numpad doesn't change this one.)