I just bought this combo and no where to be found does it tell you how to
turn these 2 items on and off.
Do you even need to or do they turn off automatically when my computer goes
into sleep mode.
Seems that if they didn't turn off and on, the battery life would just suck.

Hi,
Most of our keyboards don't have power switches because most people don't
think to switch a desktop device like that on and off. Instead, the
keyboards are programmed to go to varying levels of sleep when no key is
pressed for a certain amount of time. If your keyboard is sitting on the
desk all night with no one touching it, it's not going to be drawing very
much power. The Arc Keyboard and the Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 are
exceptions because we expect people to carry them around in a laptop bag or
backpack where something might press down a key and drain the battery more
quickly, so they have switches.

Our mobile mice usually have a way to turn off power, again because they
might be shoved in a backpack where something presses the buttons. For mice
that have larger transceivers, the transceiver usually nests in the bottom
of the mouse and activates a switch. It's usually not a true on/off switch,
because there are various electrical considerations, but it puts the mouse
in a super low power state, even if a button is pushed. For mice that have
our super small transceivers, we assume you might want to leave the
transceiver in your computer, so we put manual switch on the mouse. Again,
it's really more of a standby switch than true on/off, but it does the same
low power state.

I looked at the technical data sheets for both the Wireless Media Desktop
1000 and the Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 and both list 6 months of typical
battery usage. Which includes leaving them turned on but not touched for
long periods of time.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but hope it helps.