There are easy ways to change which keyboard your computer thinks it has. Some of them are built in and managed through the control panel. I need a Swedish keyboard so I can easily type ä, ö, and å, so I just tell the computer that is what I have. I used to have a notebook I bought in the UK, and those have all kinds of weird positions for the various things that are above the number keys, so in those days I just told the computer that it was a US keyboard and ignored what was written on the keys.
However, it is possible to configure a custom keyboard if you want--ask google for "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator". This one is a godsend. The one problem with a Swedish keyboard is that many European countries use a comma the way the US uses a decimal point, and vice versa. So the number 10.000,00 is what we would type 10,000.00. This means that instead of having a decimal point on the number keypad there is a comma there, which is really annoying. Therefore I used that keyboard layout create to define my own keyboard which is based on the Swedish keyboard, but has a decimal point on the number pad, and my life is much happier. (one types a lot of numbers when one works as a scientist)
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:01 am (UTC)However, it is possible to configure a custom keyboard if you want--ask google for "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator". This one is a godsend. The one problem with a Swedish keyboard is that many European countries use a comma the way the US uses a decimal point, and vice versa. So the number 10.000,00 is what we would type 10,000.00. This means that instead of having a decimal point on the number keypad there is a comma there, which is really annoying. Therefore I used that keyboard layout create to define my own keyboard which is based on the Swedish keyboard, but has a decimal point on the number pad, and my life is much happier. (one types a lot of numbers when one works as a scientist)