Surprising how much time you can spend on these little niggles…
- Irritated that Windows doesn't have an ellipsis key?
- Wondering how to do printscreen from your apple keyboard?
- Really really fed up with swapping between Cut‘n’Paste is “⌘-C,⌘-V” and Cut‘n’Paste is “Ctrl-c-Ctrl-v”?
Help is at hand.
AutoHotKey
When I first came across I was a bit unsure about using AutoHotKey. But I have seen the light. It is the bee's knees. It is open source, widely used for years, free, small footprint and is the ultimate customise-all-the-things tool for Windows. It is a combined scripting tool & Keyboard/Mouse hotkey manager.
My AutoHotKey for a Mac User with an Apple keyboard on Windows Script
https://gist.github.com/chrisfcarroll/dddf32fea1f29e75f564
There you are. It's all you need. That, and a few hours to customise it yourself. Then a few more hours to… oh, never mind.
Disclaimer
When I said that AHK is the bee's knees, I didn't say that the language isn't arcane, unintuitive and bearing signs of organic growth over a decade or more…