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| Thread ID: 24704 | 2002-09-16 21:56:00 | XP Pro Issue | honeylaser (814) | Press F1 |
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| 80172 | 2002-09-16 21:56:00 | I had a brief discussion with my husband about this, and he seemed to think that SP1 for XP would do the trick, but it hasn't. I'm having problems with certain characters on my keyboard, mainly the ' and the ". When I hit them, they don't show up on the document I'm creating until I add another character. I've noticed that it is not only my PC, but others which I have tried also, so that counts out my keyboard being the issue. Its not vital, but it IS kind of annoying. I downloaded and installed XP SP1 yesterday and all critical updates from MS, but it hasn't solved the problem yet. Sorry if this is a repeat of another post, I wasn't able to find anything searching. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 80173 | 2002-09-16 22:38:00 | Had the same problem but with Office 97 - W98se. I think it is something to do with what language that is set, but memory a bit hazy. Mine is set to English NZ & is OK. Hope this helps. Regional settings/control panel Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 80174 | 2002-09-16 23:06:00 | I thought that might have been the case, and switched it from default US to English NZ a couple of weeks ago, but it hasn't solved the problem :( | honeylaser (814) | ||
| 80175 | 2002-09-17 03:52:00 | This has been here before, I don't remember the solution, it's not an XP thing. Try searching F1 for words like "foreign". It might be something to do with Word, check under tools, options, but I couldn't see anything obvious. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 80176 | 2002-09-17 04:18:00 | > It might be something to do with Word, check under > tools, options, but I couldn't see anything obvious. Its not only happening in Word. It happens anywhere I happen to type the " or ' symbols. It happened just then when I tried to type in here! I did a search back using various terms, but wasn't able to find anything related to my problem. I'll try again though :( |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 80177 | 2002-09-17 04:24:00 | I just confirmed that it is definitely not an Office XP issue, its Windows. | honeylaser (814) | ||
| 80178 | 2002-09-17 04:41:00 | I think the answer either came from this forum or PCWorld mag. I might have a play and see if I can get it to do again on this one. As Robo said, it is a windows thingy. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 80179 | 2002-09-17 04:51:00 | It is indeed a Windows thing. It is the way of inserting accented characters. In the thread "Apostrophe and Quotations" (August 21, you can find it in the Search at the top of this page) -=JM=- found a posting from Mike (in thread 19465) but the link as it appears has an extra " " which stops it working. Basically it's in the keyboard settings. You have a European or US-International setting, where you want US-English. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 80180 | 2002-09-17 05:25:00 | For the benefit of those who can't find the thread Graham L is referring to, Mike's instructions are as follows: From the start menu, go to Control Panel. Click on the option for Language settings (might be called 'Date, Time, Language, and Regional settings'). Click on 'Regional and Language settings'. In the new window that pops up, click on the 'Languages' tab at the top, and click on the 'Details' button. In the new window, scroll down the list until you see 'Keyboard', and a country name underneath that heading. If that country isn't US, then you'll have to change it. To change it, click the Add button, click (in the new window) the box next to 'Keyboard layout/IME', and from the scroll list under that (not from the top scrolldown list - that's for Input language, which should be set to English - New Zealand), select 'US' and click OK. Now you should be back at the previous window, and should now have two options under 'Keyboard'. Click on the one that's NOT 'US' and click on remove. Now 'US' should be highlighted as default. Click OK to close all the windows you have open, and it might ask you to restart (I'm not sure). Now your keyboard should work correctly. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 80181 | 2002-09-17 05:41:00 | You Legend, Susan! I can finally quote to my hearts delight ;) | honeylaser (814) | ||
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