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Old 11-08-2006, 11:05 AM   #11 (permalink)
Keith
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Originally Posted by Caveman Joe View Post
Just to complicate things further, I'm now typing on a QWERTY keyboard converted to DVORAK (by popping the keys off with a screwdriver, natch - no way I'm paying eighty quid for a keyboard)
Personally, I found learning Dvorak on a keyboard marked with QWERTY to be a blessing. It forced me to not look at the keys while I was learning.

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Originally Posted by Caveman Joe View Post
I have a freeware application that will switch between QWERTY and DVORAK layouts in Windows using the Scroll Lock key, which is very useful.
You can configure Windows to toggle layouts with a keypress too (LeftCtrl+LeftShift+LeftAlt, IIRC). This works in XP and IIRC it worked in Win98SE too.
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