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I have two computers, one with Windows XP Home, and one with Win 98SE. Both
have Word 2000 installed. On the Win 98SE computer when I type " the symbol appears immediately, on the Windows XP Home computer the " does not appear until I type the following letter. Also, if I type "A the " appears above the A instead of before it. In both machines the language is set to English (Australia) and the settings in AutoCorrect appear identical. In AutoFormat As You Type, the replace "Straight Quotes" with "smart Quotes" check box is unchecked. Thank you Ron |
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What language is the KEYBOARD set to? Sounds like you have an international
keyboard selected, in which " is a prefix key for umlauted vowels. If you follow it with a vowel, you get the umlauted vowel; if you follow it with a space, you get the quote. To check the keyboard setting, look at Control Panel | Regional Options | Input Locales. -- 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. "Ron Chapple" wrote in message ... I have two computers, one with Windows XP Home, and one with Win 98SE. Both have Word 2000 installed. On the Win 98SE computer when I type " the symbol appears immediately, on the Windows XP Home computer the " does not appear until I type the following letter. Also, if I type "A the " appears above the A instead of before it. In both machines the language is set to English (Australia) and the settings in AutoCorrect appear identical. In AutoFormat As You Type, the replace "Straight Quotes" with "smart Quotes" check box is unchecked. Thank you Ron |
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:53:39 +1000, "Ron Chapple"
wrote: I have two computers, one with Windows XP Home, and one with Win 98SE. Both have Word 2000 installed. On the Win 98SE computer when I type " the symbol appears immediately, on the Windows XP Home computer the " does not appear until I type the following letter. Also, if I type "A the " appears above the A instead of before it. In both machines the language is set to English (Australia) and the settings in AutoCorrect appear identical. In AutoFormat As You Type, the replace "Straight Quotes" with "smart Quotes" check box is unchecked. Thank you Ron Hi Ron, You may have the language set to English (Australia) in Word, but it seems you have your keyboard in Windows set to some language (such as French or German) that uses the quote key as a "dead key" for inserting characters with an umlaut. Visit START/Settings/Control panel/Regional and Language Options/Languages/Details and make sure the default input language is set to English (Australia). See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for more details. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thank you both for your help. There was a second setting in Language which I
had to set to English (Australia). Have a happy day Ron "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:53:39 +1000, "Ron Chapple" wrote: I have two computers, one with Windows XP Home, and one with Win 98SE. Both have Word 2000 installed. On the Win 98SE computer when I type " the symbol appears immediately, on the Windows XP Home computer the " does not appear until I type the following letter. Also, if I type "A the " appears above the A instead of before it. In both machines the language is set to English (Australia) and the settings in AutoCorrect appear identical. In AutoFormat As You Type, the replace "Straight Quotes" with "smart Quotes" check box is unchecked. Thank you Ron Hi Ron, You may have the language set to English (Australia) in Word, but it seems you have your keyboard in Windows set to some language (such as French or German) that uses the quote key as a "dead key" for inserting characters with an umlaut. Visit START/Settings/Control panel/Regional and Language Options/Languages/Details and make sure the default input language is set to English (Australia). See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for more details. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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