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Hez guzs... or I mean, hey guys! Ugh!

All I want is to have an English keyboard with Z and Y swapped. Why is it so hard to do? I do not want to buy a software just to have this little tweak going on. I want the change to be permanent, I do not want to be toggling it in any way. Just have an English keyboard layout with Z and Y swapped.

Sometimes I need to switch to English (because OneNote is a moron and has the worst language proofing settings I have ever seen - you have to use your mouse to change proofing language. Or use a LOT of keyboard) in order to have my text corrected as an english text. However, I switch to a different keyboard, which has Z and Y swapped and I am used to typing that my whole life and I refuse to change.

Can't I just make it work somehow?

edit: AutoHotKey is an issue. I need the switch to work only in a specific keyboard layout without performance drops and I need my current scripts to continue working.

Ev0oD
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It seems you can create your own variant of the standard QWERTY layout using a microsoft provided tool Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator

I haven't had time to go through the whole process of creating a custom layout, sorry about that. You can use file -> load existing keyboard to load the default keyboard then make your modifications. Hope this helps.

Here's a screenshot I took just now when I was trying it:

enter image description here

Minop
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SparedWhisle
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You can use an AutoHotKey script with

y::z z::y

I will create a script soon and post a link to both the script and an exe of it after I test it

DanHolli
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This does not create an English keyboard with QWERTZ layout, unfortunately, but it is a workaround for the OneNote thing, if anyone would need it.

You can have a "language" setting in Windows with a keyboard of a completely different language.

So my situation now is, that I have:

  1. Slovak language (with Slovak QWERTZ keyboard)
  2. English language (with Slovak QWERTZ keyboard)

Now I can type with English language (Slovak keyboard) in OneNote, which forces English proofing language and then when I type in Slovak I can switch to Slovak language (with Slovak keyboard) and have Slovak proofing language.

The problem with this is that I do not have the benefit of an English keyboard this way, I only have two Slovak keyboards like this (with different localizations)

Ev0oD
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Check out this answer it might help you if you just want to swap a few keys it uses a free Microsoft tool called PowerToys. enter image description here

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I think the easiest way is to use powertoys, from there you go to "keyboard manager" – now you click remap key and you change remap the Z to Y and Y to Z.

user1763377
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