How do I type the backtick / Grave accent character on a (UK) Windows 8 touch keyboard?
How do I type backtick (i.e. `) on a Windows 8 touch keyboard?
This is a similar question to How do I type the tick and backtick characters on Windows? but the answer there covers real physical keyboard configurations while I need the Windows 8 virtual screen keyboard.
Here are some screen-shots of the keyboard that I am asking about:
The default touch keyboard in Windows 8 is quite simple and destined to be used on small screens.
The article How to Make the Standard Keyboard Layout Available in Windows 8 Touch Keyboard describes how to replace it by the full keyboard.
To add the standard keyboard layout to touch keyboard in Windows 8 :
- Open PC Settings
- Click/tap on General on the left side
- On the right side under Touch keyboard, move the slider on the right to the end of the list
- Turn on Make the standard keyboard layout available
- When finished, you can close PC Settings.
On Windows 8.1, this setting has migrated to PC Settings -> PC and devices -> Typing.