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Why do my keyboard keys type different symbols to that typed?
I have a problem with some of the keys on my keyboard. The key pressed is not
that which appears on the screen. For example, if I press the " key, I get @. I cannot seem to get the pound sterling symbol on the keyboard (only in Symbol) and if i press the pound sign I get #. Any ideas? |
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Why do my keyboard keys type different symbols to that typed?
You have a keyboard definition in Windows that doesn't match the keyboard
hardware -- usually an English(US) definition with an English(UK) keyboard results in that kind of substitution. See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for the complete procedure. -- 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. lynlaz wrote: I have a problem with some of the keys on my keyboard. The key pressed is not that which appears on the screen. For example, if I press the " key, I get @. I cannot seem to get the pound sterling symbol on the keyboard (only in Symbol) and if i press the pound sign I get #. Any ideas? |
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