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2 keys switched themselves
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. |
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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 Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2 keys switched themselves
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. |
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