I'm using Office 2003 Standard Edition and when in Word and Outlook, have a
problem. 2 keys have somehow switched round. I now have to hit Shift/ " for
the @ sign, and shift/@ to get the " sign. No idea how this happened.

I've tried reinstalling the disk to correct errors, and tried messing around
with the symbols shortcuts, but nothing changes.

I'm a writer, so use " all the time and am totally frustrated by this. Any
ideas??
Thanks.

These two symbols are swapped on U.S. and U.K. keyboards. You've got the
wrong keyboard layout selected.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Toes" wrote in message
...
I'm using Office 2003 Standard Edition and when in Word and Outlook, have
a
problem. 2 keys have somehow switched round. I now have to hit Shift/ "
for
the @ sign, and shift/@ to get the " sign. No idea how this happened.

I've tried reinstalling the disk to correct errors, and tried messing
around
with the symbols shortcuts, but nothing changes.

I'm a writer, so use " all the time and am totally frustrated by this. Any
ideas??
Thanks.

Thanks, Suzanne--that makes sense as I tried to make the speech thing work so
I could talk-type and did mess around with the language option as I am from
the UK living in US. I couldn't make it adapt to UK speech despite choosing
that option, and despite it saying 'United Kingdom' on the tool bar.

I just tried switching back to US on the language bar, but that doesn't hold
the change and reverts back to UK. Do you know how to make the change
permanent?
Toes

"Toes" wrote:

I'm using Office 2003 Standard Edition and when in Word and Outlook, have a
problem. 2 keys have somehow switched round. I now have to hit Shift/ " for
the @ sign, and shift/@ to get the " sign. No idea how this happened.

I've tried reinstalling the disk to correct errors, and tried messing around
with the symbols shortcuts, but nothing changes.

I'm a writer, so use " all the time and am totally frustrated by this. Any
ideas??
Thanks.

You need to change the keyboard setting in the Windows Control Panel.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Toes" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Suzanne--that makes sense as I tried to make the speech thing work
so
I could talk-type and did mess around with the language option as I am
from
the UK living in US. I couldn't make it adapt to UK speech despite
choosing
that option, and despite it saying 'United Kingdom' on the tool bar.

I just tried switching back to US on the language bar, but that doesn't
hold
the change and reverts back to UK. Do you know how to make the change
permanent?
Toes

"Toes" wrote:

I'm using Office 2003 Standard Edition and when in Word and Outlook,
have a
problem. 2 keys have somehow switched round. I now have to hit Shift/ "
for
the @ sign, and shift/@ to get the " sign. No idea how this happened.

I've tried reinstalling the disk to correct errors, and tried messing
around
with the symbols shortcuts, but nothing changes.

I'm a writer, so use " all the time and am totally frustrated by this.
Any
ideas??
Thanks.

Many thanks! All fixed.
Toes

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You need to change the keyboard setting in the Windows Control Panel.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Toes" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Suzanne--that makes sense as I tried to make the speech thing work
so
I could talk-type and did mess around with the language option as I am
from
the UK living in US. I couldn't make it adapt to UK speech despite
choosing
that option, and despite it saying 'United Kingdom' on the tool bar.

I just tried switching back to US on the language bar, but that doesn't
hold
the change and reverts back to UK. Do you know how to make the change
permanent?
Toes

"Toes" wrote:

I'm using Office 2003 Standard Edition and when in Word and Outlook,
have a
problem. 2 keys have somehow switched round. I now have to hit Shift/ "
for
the @ sign, and shift/@ to get the " sign. No idea how this happened.

I've tried reinstalling the disk to correct errors, and tried messing
around
with the symbols shortcuts, but nothing changes.

I'm a writer, so use " all the time and am totally frustrated by this.
Any
ideas??
Thanks.

[Glenn Petersen]

I get this problem, but it is slightly different

Im using Outlook 2007 and this problem just seems to randomly happen, ie
instead of pressing SHIFT+2 to get a " I need to press SHIFT+'.

My keyboard is permenatly set to United Kingdom and is still set to UK when
I get this problem !

"Toes" wrote:

I'm using Office 2003 Standard Edition and when in Word and Outlook, have a
problem. 2 keys have somehow switched round. I now have to hit Shift/ " for
the @ sign, and shift/@ to get the " sign. No idea how this happened.

I've tried reinstalling the disk to correct errors, and tried messing around
with the symbols shortcuts, but nothing changes.

I'm a writer, so use " all the time and am totally frustrated by this. Any
ideas??
Thanks.