The virtual keyboard is too big

I am an engineer working in the Chicago area. Sometime, I have to do inspection work on some structures and to make sure that the projects adhere to the rules and regulations of local, state, federal, etc. Traditionally, we would be going through
several books, each one having several thousand pages long. I would have to look through tens of thousands of different values to plug into my calculations.
So, I started writing my own app to make my life easier. Metro doesn't have an autocompletebox, so I had to write my own. There are actually a lot of things that metro makes my life hard, but I've been overcoming them with codes.
The one thing that I cannot change is the keyboard. The keyboard takes over almost 2/3 of the screen, covering up everything important. This is an annoyance that I've been feeling and when other inspectors try out my app they also complain about
the same thing. It seems like you used braindead users for your research or something. People who do real work need to see more of the screen when we input values out in the field.
To solve this, I've had to disable the textboxes when there is no physical keyboard present and created my own keyboard that doesn't get in the way of the fields.
Why won't MS allow the option for us to resize or move the keyboard? Why do we have to follow what bloggers and brain dead users do?
Added by edit.
And no, changing the "size" of the split keyboard doesn't help. The black area of the keyboard still takes over most of the screen.

Ok, let me explain a little more.
I am an engineer. Sometimes, I have to go out to actual work sites and do inspection work. I also do construction management on and off. Traditionally, other engineers would be out there carrying large 3000+ reference books to look
through hundreds of thousands of possible values for the right values for the specific instance for their calculations. They then would be fumbling around with their graph papers on clipboards and try to crank out calculations. I used to do this
exact same thing. The work is doubled when we would get back to the office and type everything out for a nice looking report.
A few months ago, I began working on an app using the surface so that when I'm out and about the winrt tablet would be doing all the calculations and graphings for me after I input in the appropriate values. With the app, I can save the data to continue
the work later, save the results into nicely formatted pdf files, and print when I get back to the office. When my boss started noticing my reports and then saw me using the MS surface in the field, he asked me about it. After showing him what
I had, he said if my LOB app works out he will buy everyone in the company an MS surface. It will definitely save us a lot of time.
Not all professions involve sitting comfortably in our office all the time reading blogs and facebook. When MS did a study on input, did they even consider people who want to use the tablet for actual work? Have you tried doing inspections and
inputting data using a laptop out in the field?

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