X100e BIOS Fn key swap - Is it possible to swap the physical keys too?

We just received our first x100e ThinkPad and like many other users we did not like the Fn key location, so we have changed it via the bios setting that swaps it with the Ctrl key.
However, is it possible to also swap the physical Fn and Ctrl keys on the x100e? Since we haven't had a Lenovo laptop before (we're a Dell shop), I haven't ever removed a key off a keyboard on a Lenovo laptop, so I'm not sure how easy it is to do so or if it's even possible at all, but if it is doable then please post any instructions you can think of to show us how to do it safely Removing keys on other brand keyboards (Dell's for example) is simple enough, so I'm hoping it is for a Lenovo as well.
Thanks in advance!

trafsta wrote:
We just received our first x100e ThinkPad and like many other users we did not like the Fn key location, so we have changed it via the bios setting that swaps it with the Ctrl key.
However, is it possible to also swap the physical Fn and Ctrl keys on the x100e? Since we haven't had a Lenovo laptop before (we're a Dell shop), I haven't ever removed a key off a keyboard on a Lenovo laptop, so I'm not sure how easy it is to do so or if it's even possible at all, but if it is doable then please post any instructions you can think of to show us how to do it safely Removing keys on other brand keyboards (Dell's for example) is simple enough, so I'm hoping it is for a Lenovo as well.
Thanks in advance!
Any chance you can help a fellow x100e user out with a walk through on how you configured this in the bios? thanks in advance

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