Re: Word 2002 Problem

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From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:33:02 -0500

Look at your keyboard settings, since it is effecting
several programs it is likely in the keyboard custom
settings. What keyboard do you have?

"Anopheles" <AnophelesOz@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:evS1qaeHEHA.3880@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| I have just reformatted and reinstalled Windows XP Pro
with Office XP Pro. I
| now have a problem that appears in Word as well as Notepad
and Wordpad that
| is annoying. When I type inverted commas (or quotation
marks) the cursor
| does not move to the next position and display the
character, it remains
| where it is and no character is displayed. If I press
space bar, the cursor
| moves on revealing the quotation mark. This is of course a
huge problem when
| typing. The problem wasn't there before so something has
changed in the
| settings. All other characters are fine, it's just the two
characters on
| that key, the single quotation and full quotation marks.
| I can recall having this problem before but it was on
another computer.
|
| Can anyone assist?
|
| Anopheles
|
|
|
|

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