Windows 10: Touch keyboard (on screen) won't stay on numbers screen (&123 button)

Hi is anyone able to tell me a way to keep the number pad on the on-screen keyboard up.


After a recent update last week my on-screen keypad reverts back to the letters screen each time I enter in a set of numbers.


My job involves a lot of numerical data entry using a Surface tablet and the on screen keyboard. Usually I just key in numbers and enter or move to next cell in Excel to continue.


I haven't been able to find a setting to fix this. I'm hoping to be able to uninstall the update but I'm waiting for IT to get back to me as I don't have admin access to uninstall updates.


Anyone able to help?


Thanks

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Touch screens

I can do 60 words per minute on my phone, perhaps more now as I've got used to the phone. ( htc desire z, using the stock onscreen keyboard)

Touch screen + predictive text I recon I could equal my keyboard typing speed. Maybe beat it depending on how advance the predictions are.

( hard to use predictive software on traditional keyboards as there is no way to quickly choose the suggested word, where as touch screen keyboards can have the suggested words appear above the function keys)

 

touch screen keyboard


I have an old tablet pc, motion computing C5. When I click the keyboard button in the taskbar,
the touch screen keyboard comes up. Problem is its the handwriting option, not the default qwerty keyboard.
any ideas how to get it back to the default???

I want this when I click the touch screen keyboard button in the taskbar:




But instead I get this as the default:




And it won't remember they last keyboard I used

 

Touch screens

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