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Touch keyboard, full screen, Win 11 tablet

Anonymous
2024-12-30T00:59:15+00:00

Is there a way to automatically open the on-screen keyboard by clicking in a text field? I bought a Windows 11 tablet to suspend over my bed via an articulated arm. I have a Bluetooth mouse for it and would like to use the on-screen keyboard. I can do that in most situations by selecting it from my task bar, but not in YouTube where I'm most likely to use it. YouTube doesn't display the comment section while in tablet mode unless the video is set to full screen. When it is, I can't access the task bar, so no keyboard. I don't have the option to take it out of tablet mode. The only workaround I've found is to slide the keyboard almost all the way off the screen until I need it but the simpler solution would be for the keyboard to appear automatically when I click where I can type. Is there a way to do this in Win 11?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-31T07:29:59+00:00

    Hello Dave-Burrows, Welcome to the Microsoft Community!

    Based on your feedback that you are experiencing issues with the win11 tablet touch keyboard

    I have a strange question.

    Normally when a computer is in tablet mode and you click on the screen where you are typing text, the touch keyboard usually pops up automatically.

    But it's a bit strange that your computer doesn't show the touch keyboard.

    You can look at the following settings

    1. Enable the touch keyboard to show up automatically:
    1. Open “Settings” (Win + I).
    2. Select “Time and Language”.
    3. Click on “Input”.
    4. Scroll down to the “Touch Keyboard” section and enable the “Show touch keyboard when no keyboard is connected” option.
    1. Make sure the touch keyboard button is visible:

    Right-click on the taskbar and select “Taskbar Settings”.

    Enable the “Touch Keyboard” button so that you can always open the touch keyboard from the taskbar.

    1. There is another tricky way

    You can refer to it to see if it can be easier for you to use.

    You can follow the steps below to create a shortcut to the on-screen keyboard on the desktop of your Windows 11 computer:

    1. Click the Start button and type “on-screen keyboard” in the search bar.
    2. Right-click on “Onscreen Keyboard” in the search results and select “Open File Location”.
    3. In the File Explorer window that opens, locate the “Onscreen Keyboard” file, right-click on it and select “Send to” > “Desktop (create shortcut)”.

    To create a new shortcut:

    1. Right-click on an empty space on your desktop and select “New” > “Shortcut”.
    2. Type OSK in the “Type the location of the object” field and click “Next”.
    3. In the “Type a name for this shortcut” field, type “Onscreen Keyboard” or any other name you like, and then click “Finish”.

    Then you can pin the shortcut to the taskbar.

    Then you can click on the keyboard shortcut in the taskbar and it will show you

    Windows key + number keys, which will open the corresponding program, for example:

    This is the taskbar in my computer, if I click on windows+4 it opens edge and windows+5 opens outlook

    So you put the keyboard shortcut to the first program you want to press windows+X.

    Then you can download a program called “powertoys” which is a free utility from Microsoft.

    It has a keyboard mapper function.

    Then if your mouse has a side button, you can map windows+X to the side button of your mouse.

    Then you can open the keyboard by clicking the side button of your mouse.

    It may be more convenient than what you have now, you can try it.

    Looking forward to hearing from you again!

    Kirito|Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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