[Timothy]

Help...why do apostrophe marks and parentheses only appear in pairs (ie, I
have to hit the button twice and then they appear in sets). These are located
on the same key on my laptop.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have the apostrophe and a parenthesis (left or right?) on the same key?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Timothy" wrote in message
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Help...why do apostrophe marks and parentheses only appear in pairs (ie, I
have to hit the button twice and then they appear in sets). These are
located
on the same key on my laptop.

[Timothy]

Yes, on the same key next to my enter button. The direction of the
parenthesis is indeterminable but the apostrophe is 'right'.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You have the apostrophe and a parenthesis (left or right?) on the same key?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"Timothy" wrote in message
...
Help...why do apostrophe marks and parentheses only appear in pairs (ie, I
have to hit the button twice and then they appear in sets). These are
located
on the same key on my laptop.

[Tony Jollans]

Make sure your keyboard is set to the correct language (Control Panel
Regional Options). I forget the details but some keyboard languages use the
quote key as a prefix to produce an accent on the following character and do
not produce anything on screen until the second key is pressed. You may find
that pressing something like quote-enter or quote-space produces a single
quote character - again I forget the details.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Timothy" wrote in message
...
Yes, on the same key next to my enter button. The direction of the
parenthesis is indeterminable but the apostrophe is 'right'.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You have the apostrophe and a parenthesis (left or right?) on the same
key?

--
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.

"Timothy" wrote in message
...
Help...why do apostrophe marks and parentheses only appear in pairs
(ie, I
have to hit the button twice and then they appear in sets). These are
located
on the same key on my laptop.

[Timothy]

Many thanks. Space bar does the trick. My language settings are all set to
one form of English or another (international, US, etc).

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

Make sure your keyboard is set to the correct language (Control Panel
Regional Options). I forget the details but some keyboard languages use the
quote key as a prefix to produce an accent on the following character and do
not produce anything on screen until the second key is pressed. You may find
that pressing something like quote-enter or quote-space produces a single
quote character - again I forget the details.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Timothy" wrote in message
...
Yes, on the same key next to my enter button. The direction of the
parenthesis is indeterminable but the apostrophe is 'right'.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You have the apostrophe and a parenthesis (left or right?) on the same
key?

--
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.

"Timothy" wrote in message
...
Help...why do apostrophe marks and parentheses only appear in pairs
(ie, I
have to hit the button twice and then they appear in sets). These are
located
on the same key on my laptop.