Re: Word 2002 Problem

From: Anopheles (AnophelesOz_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:27:00 +1000

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:.
> In news:evS1qaeHEHA.3880@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
> Anopheles <AnophelesOz@yahoo.com.au> typed:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> You're using the US-International keyboard layout, which is
> provided to facilitate typing special characters like ä. This can
> be turned off in Control Panel | Regional and Language Options |
> Languages | Details | Settings.
>

Exactly. I found the clue in the Knowledge base after I posted my request.

Thank you and thanks to all who responded.

Anopheles

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