Windows 10: Touch keyboard popping up when pointing into a text field - very annoying, how can I switch...

I am using a Surface Pro 7 updated to Windows 11. I always work with keyboard type cover attached, and with a pen that I use mostly instead of / as replacement of a mouse. The following problem has been harassing me every now and then since I have the Surface Pro, now it is fully happening again:Whenever I touch with the pen tip on a text entry field, in any program browser, text editor, whatever, the keyboard app pops up. This is not how I want the key-touch to behave when my type cover is attached - but it happens, always, for each text I type I first need to close the onscreen keyboard

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Onscreen touch keyboard not popping up

My onscreen touch keyboard never pops up in any text field. I have tried almost all the troubleshooting steps found on thos forum.but nothing has worked so far. Pleaae help : )

 

How to get the on-screen keyboard to pop up in tablet mode

In tablet mode the on-screen keyboard rarely pops up when touching a text input field, and there is no task bar and no touch keyboard icon. What is the point of tablet mode if I can't use it as a tablet? Touch functionality took 3 steps back in Win10.
compared to 8.1.

 

Turn off touch keyboard BUT have a keyboard available on startup


Hi,

I have the problem that anytime I touch the screen with my pen (which is what I use instead of a mouse, being an illustrator) the touch keyboard pops up, even though I have a (bluetooth) keyboard attached. I'd like to get rid of this behavior, HOWEVER, it's mandatory that I have either the touch keyboard or a screen keyboard when i start my tablet in order to be able to sign in to my account. at that point the system does not recognize an external keyboard. Can anyone tell me how to accomplished this: the steps to disable the annoying popup touch keyboard BUT have a keyboard available at startup?

Thanks in advance for any help.