Re: Hidden "speech marks" and entry problems "" Word2007

If she presses 'e, does it convert into é? If so, then check to see if the keyboard is set to US or to United States International in the language Settings. I'm guessing that it's set to international. US - International does what you're seeing. Plain US doesn't.

When set to international, when you press " or ', the system waits to see what you press next. If you press an accentable character, the system swallows the accent and spits out the accented character. If you press something else, the system then types " or ' respectively. From a practical standpoint, that means you have to work harder to type a plain " character, but not as hard to type í, ï, or è.

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"David Driscole" <daviddriscole (at) gmail (dot) com> wrote in message news:C7812246-4E78-4B8C-8177-D962BDFA2CFB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Herb - but still no luck.

I checked the settings. Defaults were set at EN US. I've added EN NZ (and
set as defualt) and modified the keyboard settings to US. Still keeps doing
the same thing.

David

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

It looks like she has a foreign keyboard (one that uses "dead keys" for
inserting accented characters) enabled. On the task bar, is the language bar
showing? Ordinarily, is has EN (in the US). If it has ES or FR, then this is
the problem. Click the language indicator, and choose EN.

To keep it from happening again... you can either remove the additional
keyboard languages (unless they're needed), or at the very least,
right-click EN and choose Settings, and set all of the hot keys for
switching input languages to None. Otherwise, certain combinations of Shift
and Ctrl can cause this problem to recur... without warning.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"David Driscole" <daviddriscole (at) gmail (dot) com> wrote in message
news:70D89689-5BCF-4C9A-A90F-41B8AFC0941F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hey there.
>
> I'm the token IT/PC guy at work. One of the girls is having trouble > using
> "speech marks" or "quotation marks" when she is writing in Word.
>
> If they are inserted as you write, the first set "can be seen, but the
> last
> set is invisible until you hit enter
>
> Not really a bit problem "", but if she wanted to go back and put > speech
> marks around the work problem in this sentence, it would end up looking
> like
> it does now.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix it?
>
> Many thanks, David
>
> :: Notes from previous post below ::
>
> Thanks John. I've had a look but that function is allready enabled. > I'll
> move this across to the PC Word group.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> "John McGhie" wrote:
>
>> Hi David:
>>
>> Look up "Autocorrect" in the Help and go to Word Options>Autocorrect
>> options>Autoformat as you type... And make sure "Replace straight >> quotes
>> with smart quotes" is enabled.
>>
>> Hope that's it...
>>
>> If not, re-post your question in the PC Word group, this one is for >> Mac
>> Word.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> On 28/6/07 9:12 AM, in article
>> 83DC5C64-EE50-44D2-B009-3E511952941D@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Driscole"
>> <daviddriscole at gmail dot com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hey there.
>> >
>> > I'm the token IT/PC guy at work. One of the girls is having trouble
>> > using
>> > "speech marks" or "quotation marks" when she is writing in Word.
>> >
>> > If they are inserted as you write, the first set "can be seen, but >> > the
>> > last
>> > set is invisible until you hit enter
>> >
>> > Not really a bit problem "", but if she wanted to go back and put
>> > speech
>> > marks around the work problem in this sentance, it would end up >> > looking
>> > like
>> > it does now.
>> >
>> > Any ideas on how to fix it?
>> >
>> > Many thanks, David
>>
>> -- >> Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/
>>
>> Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you >> to.
>>
>> John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
>> McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
>> http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
>> Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
>> +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>


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