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Old July 6th, 2009, 04:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
sassi
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Default special characters on my keyboard

I have a new vista, I have set up my language as US english, yet the keyboard
uses the special characters when I am in a word document. ie: I cannot use
the question mark, it defaults the accent e.
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Old July 6th, 2009, 07:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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Default special characters on my keyboard

Verify that you have the correct keyboard layout (input language) specified
in Control Panel. I don't know the exact steps in Windows Vista, but in
Windows XP you access these settings via Regional and Language Options.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"sassi" wrote in message
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I have a new vista, I have set up my language as US english, yet the
keyboard
uses the special characters when I am in a word document. ie: I cannot use
the question mark, it defaults the accent e.




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Old September 28th, 2009, 04:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Bill
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Default special characters on my keyboard

I have the same issue and I checked in the Input Language on Windows Vista
and it is US English, so it is correct. I only seem to be getting the Issue
in Mocrisoft Outlook, but not Word, IE, or any other programs - it is
annoying - I can't get a "?" or a " ' " single quote for example in replying
to an e-mail in Outlook 2007. Any other ideas?


"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Verify that you have the correct keyboard layout (input language) specified
in Control Panel. I don't know the exact steps in Windows Vista, but in
Windows XP you access these settings via Regional and Language Options.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"sassi" wrote in message
...
I have a new vista, I have set up my language as US english, yet the
keyboard
uses the special characters when I am in a word document. ie: I cannot use
the question mark, it defaults the accent e.





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Old September 29th, 2009, 05:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Graham Mayor
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Default special characters on my keyboard

Outlook uses its own editor. Check the language at the cursor from the
spellcheck dropdown on the Message tab.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Bill wrote:
I have the same issue and I checked in the Input Language on Windows
Vista and it is US English, so it is correct. I only seem to be
getting the Issue in Mocrisoft Outlook, but not Word, IE, or any
other programs - it is annoying - I can't get a "?" or a " ' " single
quote for example in replying to an e-mail in Outlook 2007. Any
other ideas?


"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Verify that you have the correct keyboard layout (input language)
specified in Control Panel. I don't know the exact steps in Windows
Vista, but in Windows XP you access these settings via Regional and
Language Options.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"sassi" wrote in message
...
I have a new vista, I have set up my language as US english, yet the
keyboard
uses the special characters when I am in a word document. ie: I
cannot use the question mark, it defaults the accent e.



 




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