The dead key + base key forms the composite key. Right-click on the key and hit ‘Set as dead key.’Ī new window will open, where you can set your additional keys.Īs you can see in the screenshot above, I’ve begun to enter a few Spanish characters. In other words, the left bracket is my dead key. You can rearrange or reprogram these keys as you please, but if you’d like to add additional characters to the keyboard, you’ll have to use a ‘dead key.’ As I said earlier, I access Spanish characters by first pressing [ on my keyboard. The keyboard should look filled out now and we can begin to make our personalizations. If you’re using a regular American keyboard, select ‘US.’ You can load your current keyboard through File > Load Existing Keyboard…Ĭhoose your current keyboard layout in this menu. Rather than creating an entire layout from scratch, it’s a lot easier to just use our current keyboard layout and then customize it with our new specifications. You’ll be presented with a blank keyboard layout initially, totally customizable from the ground up: Once the installation is finished, you can open the program through the Start menu. Once you’ve downloaded it, run the setup file and go through the install prompts (all very self-explanatory). If that link stops working for some reason, we also have the program hosted at this link. Microsoft made a handy little program just for this purpose, which can be downloaded right from their website. Much simpler, right? Yeah, but we’ll need to create a custom keyboard layout for that to happen. And instead of displacing my [ key, how about I access it by tapping it twice. So, if I wanted to write ú, I could just type [ and u. I decided that I’d much rather just be able to hit my left bracket key (ya know, this thing: [ ) followed by the character I wanted to modify with an accent or tilde. In short, I just didn’t find this keyboard layout to be very intuitive. And the same goes for all the other keys it displaced.
But… where did my semicolon key go? I don’t know, nor do I care to always remember where its new home is. Well, that’s fine, even though it’d take some getting used to. For example, it turned my semicolon ( ) key into an ñ. The Spanish keyboard that comes with Windows did some things I didn’t like. If you have an idea for how you’d like your custom key mappings to be, you can follow along with me to create your own custom keyboard. The following guide will take you through my process of creating a custom Spanish keyboard layout for my American keyboard. And while writing these characters was now way easier than before, I knew I could make a much more intuitive keyboard myself. The problem I ran into was that it made a lot of other (undesirable) changes to my keyboard, instead of just providing me with the new characters that I needed to use.
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