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Wrong characters appear when striking keys.
I have an Acer laptop with windows XP. I cannot get correct symbols, as
displayed on the keys, when I hold down shift and the key simultaneously. For example - shift+3 should give a pounds sterling symbol, I get # and shift+' should give at symbol, I get " shift+2 should give speech marks (as previous for at symbol), I get @ symbol instead!! It is driving me nuts. What can I do? Can anyone help please? |
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Wrong characters appear when striking keys.
Change the keyboard layout under the Regional and Language Options item in
the Control Panel. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Krappy keyboard" Krappy wrote in message ... I have an Acer laptop with windows XP. I cannot get correct symbols, as displayed on the keys, when I hold down shift and the key simultaneously. For example - shift+3 should give a pounds sterling symbol, I get # and shift+' should give at symbol, I get " shift+2 should give speech marks (as previous for at symbol), I get @ symbol instead!! It is driving me nuts. What can I do? Can anyone help please? |
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Wrong characters appear when striking keys.
You have Windows Regional settings configured to use a US keyboard. Change
it to a UK keyboard pattern. I'll bet you have all the regional settings to US defaults. Change then to UK (or wherever) while you are there. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Krappy keyboard wrote: I have an Acer laptop with windows XP. I cannot get correct symbols, as displayed on the keys, when I hold down shift and the key simultaneously. For example - shift+3 should give a pounds sterling symbol, I get # and shift+' should give at symbol, I get " shift+2 should give speech marks (as previous for at symbol), I get @ symbol instead!! It is driving me nuts. What can I do? Can anyone help please? |
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