My computer works well except that the ‘s’ key doesn’t work any more. I would like to find a simple way to type the letter ‘s’. At the moment, I am copying a letter ‘s’ and then using Ctrl + V to insert it in my text. But every time I want to copy something else, I have to reset this. It would be more convenient if I could create a simple combination of keys that would insert an ‘s’ every time. but I don’t know how to do this. same for capital ‘s’. Any ideas?
Just buy a cheap, new USB keyboard (even if your computer is a laptop…).
I imagine the OP has posted this question in forums for every application s/he uses on the computer…
Every program might need a unique solution 
This is not intrinsically a LO problem. You can work around it in your OS of which you didn’t mention the name. You can modify the keyboard management to reassign a key you don’t use frequently. Usually it is “only” a matter of modifying configuration tables (work on a copy and create your own keyboard layout).
An easy solution is to buy a USB keyboard. You can find entry models at ~10 EUR.
On Windows you can use the codes of the characters:
ALT+83 = S
ALT+115 = s
(We had used the codes for the Hungarian accented vowels in the early DOS era.)
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Thank you so much, everyone, for your speedy replies and helpful ideas. I’ll have a go and see what works best.