Non-Dvorak Keyboard Layout ¿¿

I want to add a new keyboard layout (Control Panel - Keyboard - Input
Locals) for Spanish characters. I am tired of doing the Alt-Keypad thing. I
note that Microsoft has a huge number of keyboard options. Is there a
graphic somewhere that corresponds to each of these variations? Without a
guide, its really a guessing game which of the several "Spanish" layouts
will best fit my needs.

Thanks for any help¡¡

Bob

lesm
Tue Mar 11 13:31:25 PDT 2008

InOverMyHead wrote:
> I want to add a new keyboard layout (Control Panel - Keyboard - Input
> Locals) for Spanish characters. I am tired of doing the Alt-Keypad thing. I
> note that Microsoft has a huge number of keyboard options. Is there a
> graphic somewhere that corresponds to each of these variations? Without a
> guide, its really a guessing game which of the several "Spanish" layouts
> will best fit my needs.

Non-Dvorak? You mean QUERTY?
ControlPanel/Keyboard. Go to InputLocales/Properties select United
States International. Type as your grandma did with an old typewriter,
that is accent vowel or tilde n or apostrophe c to get c-cedilla etc.

Pegasus
Tue Mar 11 14:55:10 PDT 2008


"InOverMyHead" <bbart@nospam.earthlink.com> wrote in message
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>I want to add a new keyboard layout (Control Panel - Keyboard - Input
> Locals) for Spanish characters. I am tired of doing the Alt-Keypad thing.
> I
> note that Microsoft has a huge number of keyboard options. Is there a
> graphic somewhere that corresponds to each of these variations? Without a
> guide, its really a guessing game which of the several "Spanish" layouts
> will best fit my needs.
>
> Thanks for any help¡¡
>
> Bob
>

Here is a map of all Microsoft keyboard layouts. You must use
Internet Explorer to view them.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.mspx

InOverMyHead
Tue Mar 11 18:41:59 PDT 2008


"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message
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>
> "InOverMyHead" <bbart@nospam.earthlink.com> wrote in message
> news:OhVmMF7gIHA.5780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >I want to add a new keyboard layout (Control Panel - Keyboard - Input
> > Locals) for Spanish characters. I am tired of doing the Alt-Keypad
thing.
> > I
> > note that Microsoft has a huge number of keyboard options. Is there a
> > graphic somewhere that corresponds to each of these variations? Without
a
> > guide, its really a guessing game which of the several "Spanish" layouts
> > will best fit my needs.
> >
> > Thanks for any help¡¡
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
> Here is a map of all Microsoft keyboard layouts. You must use
> Internet Explorer to view them.
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.mspx

Great. Just what I was looking for. It has two Spanish layouts which
correspond to the two Spanish "Keyboard Layouts-IME" options - - - but I
still don't understand what difference there is between the 20 or so Spanish
"Input Locales" offered on the same tab. Maybe I'll try the Microsoft
Keyboard Layout Creator and see what it can do for me. I just want access to
Spanish a-e-i-o-u-n-c-? and ! characters. Maybe I'll modify my regular
layout (English - US?) to be accented with a preceding Alt character. (?)
Maybe.