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space bar to get a quote mark
I've recently had to start hitting the space bar after either the single or
double quote mark keys to get the quote mark to show. If I don't hit the spacebar I get some kind of special character, depending on what letter I type next. For example, the character ç shows if I hit the single quote mark followed by the letter c. This has only recently started and is a real pain! Can someone please help me turn off whatever I may have done to get it doing this? |
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You're using keyboard software for a different language. If you have a
laptop, you probably pressed something like a Fn key provided so you can type in French or whatever. If it's happening in Windows, you can switch/toggle between the installed keyboards with LeftAlt+Shift. How to make it go away entirely depends on your version of Windows. (This has nothing to do with Word itself.) On May 28, 3:49*am, Kerri wrote: I've recently had to start hitting the space bar after either the single or double quote mark keys to get the quote mark to show. If I don't hit the spacebar I get some kind of special character, depending on what letter I type next. For example, the character ç shows if I hit the single quote mark followed by the letter c. This has only recently started and is a real pain! Can someone please help me turn off whatever I may have done to get it doing this? |
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Thankyou!!! I still have no idea how it got switched, but I changed my
keyboard back to English (Australian) - US, and it seems to be working now: '""' I'm wondering if a Style might have corrupted it somehow Thanks again! |
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There are options tucked away here and there (you still haven't told
us your versions of Word and Windows!) for "Detect language automatically" and "Switch keyboard to surrounding language" (or something like that), so you'd want to be sure those are unchecked. An errant Language setting can come in if you paste as little as a single character from some other document that happens to have been set to that language. On May 28, 8:18*am, Kerri wrote: Thankyou!!! I still have no idea how it got switched, but I changed my keyboard back to English (Australian) - US, and it seems to be working now: '""' I'm wondering if a Style might have corrupted it somehow Thanks again! |
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Hi Grammatim,
I'm using Vista (on a laptop) and Office 2007. It's scary that such a little thing as pasting a single character can cause such havoc. Um, where would I find those tucked away options? "grammatim" wrote: There are options tucked away here and there (you still haven't told us your versions of Word and Windows!) for "Detect language automatically" and "Switch keyboard to surrounding language" (or something like that), so you'd want to be sure those are unchecked. An errant Language setting can come in if you paste as little as a single character from some other document that happens to have been set to that language. On May 28, 8:18 am, Kerri wrote: Thankyou!!! I still have no idea how it got switched, but I changed my keyboard back to English (Australian) - US, and it seems to be working now: '""' I'm wondering if a Style might have corrupted it somehow Thanks again! |
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"Detect automatically" is in Review Set Language; "Switch keyboard"
is in Office Button Word Options Advanced Editing Options (first bunch), next to last item. On May 28, 5:17*pm, Kerri wrote: Hi Grammatim, I'm using Vista (on a laptop) and Office 2007. It's scary that such a little thing as pasting a single character can cause such havoc. Um, where would I find those tucked away options? "grammatim" wrote: There are options tucked away here and there (you still haven't told us your versions of Word and Windows!) for "Detect language automatically" and "Switch keyboard to surrounding language" (or something like that), so you'd want to be sure those are unchecked. An errant Language setting can come in if you paste as little as a single character from some other document that happens to have been set to that language. On May 28, 8:18 am, Kerri wrote: Thankyou!!! I still have no idea how it got switched, but I changed my keyboard back to English (Australian) - US, and it seems to be working now: '""' I'm wondering if a Style might have corrupted it somehow Thanks again!- |
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Yes, 'Detect automatically' was ticked so I've un-ticked it. Will that affect
only a new document, or will that apply to all documents? I don't want to open the documents that have been weird before and lose these changes! Thanks again for your help, Kerri |
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If you did it in the template, it will affect all new documents. I
don't see how it could work retroactively. Word doesn't change language-specific features when you change the Set Language -- when I translate a French document I work in a copy of the original, and when I change it to US English, the guillemets don't turn into quotation marks and the nonbreaking spaces before the colons don't go away. On May 29, 12:07*am, Kerri wrote: Yes, 'Detect automatically' was ticked so I've un-ticked it. Will that affect only a new document, or will that apply to all documents? I don't want to open the documents that have been weird before and lose these changes! Thanks again for your help, Kerri |
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