The usual reason for this is that you have enabled an international keyboard
layout, in which the quote key acts as a "dead key" for accented letters. If
you press, say, apostrophe, then e, you get é; in order to get an apostrophe
(or single quote), you have to press the spacebar. The best solution in your
case is to change the keyboard layout to US or UK, as appropriate. See
Windows Control Panel | Keyboard or Control Panel | Regional Options | Input
Locales.
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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When I type in a quote mark, I have to type the quote, then hit the space
bar before it will show on the screen. Is this fixable, or just the way
Word
works?
Also, lately, when I type an open quote, it shows as a close quote unless
I
put two spaces before the quote. Then I have to go back and delete the
extra
space. Is there a tool I can use to fix this problem?