Keyboard all a bit messed up
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lynno

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8,918 posts

247 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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How come my @ and " are the wrong way round? If I type the " key (above numeral 2) I get @ and vice versa.

Any ideas please, ta thumbup

lynno

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8,918 posts

247 months

Monday 26th March 2007
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the link said:
The @ and " keys are the wrong way round

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This problem occurs because the keyboard's language setting is given as English (US). It may manifest when you create a new mail message in Outlook 2002, and may only affect Outlook, rather than packages such as MS Word. This is a known Microsoft issue (Knowledge Base article 307437).

There are two ways to fix this. If you are confident that you will never want to use the English (US) setting for your keyboard, select the following option:

Close all applications.

Select Start | Settings | Control Panel | Keyboard. Select the Input Locales tab and, in the list below Input Language click on EN English (United States) to highlight it.
Click the Remove button.
Ensure EN English (United Kingdom) is the only keyboard installed. Click on OK.
If you wish to retain the option to use the English (US) keyboard setting, follow the procedure below:

Close all applications.
Click on the blue EN button in the system tray on the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
Select EN English (United Kingdom).


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Info December 2005


There's no EN in my system tray and nothing like an Inpu Locale tab in Keyboard in Cotrol Panel.

jimmyjimjim

8,336 posts

269 months

Tuesday 27th March 2007
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How about start/settings/control panel/regional and language options/ languages tab, then select details, and look at the 'installed services'.

The above is for Windows XP - you didn't specify what O/S you're running...

lynno

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8,918 posts

247 months

Tuesday 27th March 2007
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jimmyjimjim said:
How about start/settings/control panel/regional and language options/ languages tab, then select details, and look at the 'installed services'.

The above is for Windows XP - you didn't specify what O/S you're running...


Yay it's sorted! It was XP. Cheers jimmy.