How to Switch Your Keyboard from QWERTY to AZERTY on Windows

NicolasBrondinBernard

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Made a typo and your keyboard letters are swapped? Here's the solution!

Article published on 21/08/2023, last updated on 10/08/2026

It sometimes happens that while trying to type on your keyboard, you suddenly find yourself with a keyboard whose letters are suddenly swapped...

You may have even typed:

Co;;ent re;ettre son clqvier en qwerty ?

into Google before landing on this article! Yet the trick to switch from azerty to qwerty, or from qwerty to azerty, on Windows is very simple.:

You just need to press the following keys simultaneously:

Shift + Alt

And there you go, that's all it takes!


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