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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Neasa" wrote in message
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I'm using Office 2000 and if I type an apostrophe I have to press space
bar
before the next character, otherwise the next character becomes accented.
Is there a way to turn off this option as I very rarely need to accent a
character but I do often need to type an apostrophe!
Thanks for your help.