This talks around the issue you raise, but my mentor in programming wrote his own word processor and included two keystroke operations to rectify this problem: CTL + Backspace would "remove" a character behind the cursor (and "push" it into the copy buffer) & CTL + Shift + Backspace would "insert" a character behind the cursor (effectively a "pop" from the copy buffer). Thus by pressing CTL + Backspace twice and then CTL + Shift + Backspace twice, one would effectively transpose the two characters behind the cursor. He went on to add another two keystroke operations (CTL + Delete and CTL + Shift + Delete) to effect similar operations on the charaters in front of the cursor. Lysdexia, being what it is, meant that my computer sometimes mysteriouly rebooted while I was effecting transpositions in front of the cursor The fact that he had the foresight to build this into his product offering, as well as the fact those particular keys were well worn-out on my laptop (and I do mean laptop) seems to be positive affirmation that fingers do indeed become dyslexic. One curious bye-product of his transpose functionality was, dare I say "puzzling": .ecnetnes eritne na esrever ylisae dluoc eno I miss those keystrokes!