I think you can use TEACH for programming, you can manually jog to a coordinate press teach and if you enter Z->insert the current value should be entered, i don't think people use it :P
Offset measure i think i have used, but i think it was called something else, i think it was just teach on that machine, however i will try to explain.
If you need to set the offset of a tool you can jog to the part and press the key, then go to the tool and user the "measure" command
Thanks for the reply, Proto ..
I've used these soft-keys on the newer Fanuc with i .. but they just don't seem to do anything with this older model ... I'll give it a try the way you described it ..