How to fix a Mac after the keyboard malfunctions?

I was in Numbers when my Mac started acting weird. It would no type in what I was typing, and numbers started doing things with cells. I stopped numbers and restarted it with no change in the weird characters. I then shut down numbers and opened Safari or something else and had the same keyboard problems. I restarted the computer, but could not get on because it did not recognize my password, same keyboard problem. I then shut down the Mac, and restarted and had the same result. Net, I'm locked out. Help!

After reading some other similar comments, and waiting 24 hrs, I rebooted holding down the <control> key. It looked a little different, but the keyboard has worked fine since. I haven't opened the Numbers document that started it all. It was stored in the Cloud. When I first opened it on my iPad I was able to finish the document, but my iPad crashed. A soft reboot fixed that (thought I'd lost them both).
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