You probably have an international keyboard layout selected in Windows.
See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306560 "How To Use the United
States-International Keyboard Layout in Windows XP", except that you
want to select the standard U.S. keyboard instead of the
U.S.-International keyboard.
TomBert wrote:
My PC at work was updated for Office 2003, and ever since - I have to hit the
space bar after entering quotes to get them as intended (although they do
turn into phonetic-looking letters, for example double-quote O becomes Ö and
single quote O becomes Ó, vowels are most likely to change like this, like ä,
á, ë, é, ï, Ã*, ü, ú ).
I really do not need (or want) these characters, nor do I want to have to
hit the space bar after every quote or double quote. My Language is set to
Engligh(US), and I have tried all kinds of options for autocorrect, this
happens in various fonts - and most annoying of all - on my Mainframe
Terminal Emulation (where quotes are required to qualify filenames, etc.).
So this issue might not be a "Word" issue, it could be something else that
affects everything - it is quite frustrating however... Thanks.