Keyboard settings possible to mimic OSX better?

Howdy,

I have two basic problems with my keyboard settings:
1) I would like to use the OSX way of putting in a "@" sign also in windows. The @ is reached via alt+l. That's no big deal, I can define that in parallel's keyboard mapping rules. But in windows, the @ is reached via altGR+q. I cannot define that in parallels as I can not chose altGR plus another key, I can only chose a mac key combination that gives me altGR without additional keys! (What should be the use of that!?)
Is there a way?

2) copy, past, search and so on via CMD+whatever works fine for some apps, but not for MS Office. I don't know why, but I have this problem in all my VMs, be it WinXP or Win7, be it parallels 6 or 7 - MS Office does not pick up on my mac way of sending commands. As this is the primary use case for me, is there a way? And how is it possible that one program reacts correctly on CMD+Z for undo, while in MS Office and MS SQL server I need to use ctrl+Z???
Another issue is that some windows apps use F3 for find, while others use ctrl+f. What I would like to do is define mapping exceptions per app, so that I can always use CMD+F for find.

Any ideas welcome!

 

Am I missing something? I thought @ was shift-2.

I haven't had any issues with cmd+ commands in Office 2003 or 2007 for Windows. As far as individual app key mapping is concerned, I'm sure there are Windows programs available that could do this, even keyboard driver software like from Logitech.

Steve

 

Strelis, you're missing the fact that his keyboard is not en-US.

 

Ah, well then ignore me. I have no idea.

Steve

 

keyboard layout

I have a German keyboard layout (QWERTZ), locale is de-DE I guess.

I tried windows side key remappers, but they kinda started a war with parallels tools... as well I think this should be handled by parallels alone, it's pretty standard to cope with MS office hotkeys I'd say.

 

Just set it to proper compatibility, I use to have a German keyboard but I set it to comp key Ger - US.