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How to get german QWERTY on Windows?

Well I'm used to having the world standard keyboard which is qwerty and not qwertz... But on windows I can't find the choice for german input which would be qwerty, not qwertz. In linux there was german input with qwerty so it was fun. I believe it…
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Adobe Reader - What is the shortcut to rotate clockwise?

Win 7 64 bit Adobe Reader XI with shortcuts enabled (see Options Menu - General) German keyboard! (and of course a localized OS and so forth) Official shortcut list by Adobe: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keyboard-shortcuts.html The…
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On Windows 7, how can I assign languages (German/English) to user accounts?

I would like to have two user accounts on my laptop: one for a German speaker and one for an English speaker. Are language packs far enough advanced now that I can just: download a Germany language pack install it assign a user account to it so…
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us keyboard, german layout - special character < and >

i currently have an american keyboard with the corrsponding us layout (it is the surface type cover btw). As I am used to the german layout i changed the layout settings to german under win8.1. This works fine except for one little thing: The < and…
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Activating/using the dead key “^” with the German keyboard layout

I'm using a German keyboard layout on Ubuntu. I always write LaTeX mathematical formula with the Kile editor and the exponent key ^ is not active there. I have to copy-paste it from somewhere else and this is really annoying. The Kate editor also…
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How to install Dvorak Type 2 (ii) German on Ubuntu using Gnome

Currently I am using standard Dvorak on Ubuntu 13.10 and Gnome 3.10. Unfortunately, writing Umlauts (ä,ö,ü) in German requires me to switch to QWERTY/QWERTZ frequently or forces me to not write those umlauts (which looks strange to German native…
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Vim switch y and z

Is there a way to teach vim to switch usage of y and z? So for example yy would save a file, ya would toggle etc.. This would be much more usable with my German keyboard layout. What other technique could I use to cope with the problem of…
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How to make caps lock only work with letters (on a German keyboard)

I feel like I've gone mad :) For 30 years as an IT admin and developer, when I've hit caps-lock it only shifted the letters (so that if I hit the number 1, I still got a number one). Since migrating to Windows 10, when I hit caps-lock, it shifts the…
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MSKLC Layouts only apply to text intput, not in applications

I tried to make myself a German QWERTY layout by just switching the z and y key on my keyboard and creating a fitting layout with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout creator since there is no native support. That works just fine for text input, but not in…
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stray comma with cut paste on notepad++ under wine, ubuntu/gnome

I have ubuntu 16.04 with gnome and a German QWERTZ keyboard. I like notepad++ so installed it under wine. It works very well except for one absurd quirk. When I delete/copy with "shift"delete" it does indeed copy the selected text into the paste…
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How can I type Umlaut characters in a Putty session

I am trying to type some German characters in my putty session. I am able to type it on notepad or other editors. asdƲas But when I try to paste the above text on my Putty session, nothing happens (i.e. nothing gets echoed). My Putty…
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How to set mergefield to show long date format?

How can I make Word 2012 display German date format in mail merge? { DATE \a "dd.MM.yy" \ * MERGEFIELD } returns 15.02.2012 for today, 15. Februar 2013 however is what I want.
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How to stop Libreoffice (German) from replacing three dots "..." by the three-dots-character "…"?

I updated not too long ago. In the previous installed version I had turned this off. In the version installed now I can't find the optionbox. ): Version: 5.3.0.3 (x64) BS-Version: Windows 6.1; UI-Render: Standard; Layout-Engine: neu; Gebietsschema:…
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Windows 10 forces Visual Studio install in German

I have installed an English Version of Windows 10. Everything has been working great for quite a while, but recently, everything I install is installed in German (I do live in Germany). I want to install Visual Studio 2015 on my Machine and the Web…
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I18N-Conflict: Is there a way to make OSX-Mail auto-strip redundant AW: and WG:

Microsoft managed to break their german translation of the mail programs, which results in subject lines like "AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Question" when a mail is going back-and-forth and noone pays attention to the subject line. I believe the english…
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