Devorak support on Word is shaky

[TxLawyerinDallas]

I think Microsoft should intergrate its language settings in Windows better
with Word. To prevent further injury from carpel tunnel syndrome, I am
learning dvorak, and I've set my computer to accept dvorak input, but if I'm
typing a documetn in Word and click somewhere else on the document, Word may
unexplainably revert back to Qwerty, which is really annoying.

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[Charles Kenyon]

I've used a Dvorak layout for years. It works fine in Word, or in other
programs but has to be set in Windows (or the Mac OS), not in Word. If you
have enabled automatically detect language in Word and let Windows swap
keyboard arrangements when it thinks appropriate you could get what you are
seeing, I suppose. I would disable "automatically detect language."
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[Klaus Linke]

[...] If you have enabled automatically detect language in Word and let

Windows swap keyboard arrangements when it thinks appropriate you could get
what you are seeing, I suppose. I would disable "automatically detect
language."

.... or set up the Dvorak layout for all (keyboard) languages.

It can make sense to have different keyboard languages, but with the
commonly used (Western) languages, it doesn't really make sense to use
different keyboard layouts.

Windows by default switches the layout on you depending on the language
(which really seldom makes sense for languages like English, German, French,
Spanish...).
On my German keyboard, or on an international English keyboard, it's easy to
type all the characters needed in any Western language... and even if not,
it would likely be simpler to set the layout to what's really the hardware
layout of your physical keyboard, and create some keyboard shortcuts.
Otherwise you will have all the special keys (punctuation...) switch
positions on you every time you switch between languages.

Greetings,
Klaus