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French Characters in Word
When I type in MS Word certain keys are showing up as French characters. I
have a Toshiba laptop and the French characters are printed on the keys in red, but in all other programs the keys work just fine. For example, the question mark key comes up ? here just fine, but in MS word it shows up as a capital E with an apostrophe over it. HOW do I turn it off? |
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French Characters in Word
I do not have a French keyboard so this is just general information!
To change options for languages and keyboards go to Control Panel, select Clock Language and Region. Regional and Language Options here you can customize your system for your language and regional preferences, including keyboard layouts. Michael Vista Home premium "Jacqueline M" Jacqueline wrote in message ... When I type in MS Word certain keys are showing up as French characters. I have a Toshiba laptop and the French characters are printed on the keys in red, but in all other programs the keys work just fine. For example, the question mark key comes up ? here just fine, but in MS word it shows up as a capital E with an apostrophe over it. HOW do I turn it off? |
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French Characters in Word
I've done that, and I "removed" all of the other languages other than US English. There was Multilingual Canadian and French Canadian on there too. It's so frustrating. I can't put any question marks or quotes or apostrophes in any of my word documents. And I wouldn't say that my keyboard is a French keyboard, but it's more French than others I guess. I've searched around on my keyboard hardware thing and also in word, but I can't find anything. Any other suggestions? |
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French Characters in Word
Not really, there is an auto-correct feature and a language detection
feature in Word 2007. That might be having an effect. The options are in the Word option/proofing area. In an American english setup it converts things like (c) to © (copyright symbol). I suppose that if it determines that your are typing in French (takes a couple of sentences apparently) it could convert the keys for you. If that is part of the problem then you should be able to use the 'undo' key (control-z) immediately after the 'correction' and the 'correction' would be removed. Michael "Jacqueline M" wrote in message ... I've done that, and I "removed" all of the other languages other than US English. There was Multilingual Canadian and French Canadian on there too. It's so frustrating. I can't put any question marks or quotes or apostrophes in any of my word documents. And I wouldn't say that my keyboard is a French keyboard, but it's more French than others I guess. I've searched around on my keyboard hardware thing and also in word, but I can't find anything. Any other suggestions? |
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French Characters in Word
If this is a problem in Word 2007 and it is only happening in Word then try
the following steps. Look down in the bottom left hand corner of the word document. You will find "Page 1 of 1 (or similar numbers), Words: 0 (or different number), English (followed by whatever country you have chosen in brackets)". Click on the language once and a menu will pop up offering you all the different languages. English(United States) you won't give you this problem and it is usually caused by English(Canada) etc. "Jacqueline M" wrote: When I type in MS Word certain keys are showing up as French characters. I have a Toshiba laptop and the French characters are printed on the keys in red, but in all other programs the keys work just fine. For example, the question mark key comes up ? here just fine, but in MS word it shows up as a capital E with an apostrophe over it. HOW do I turn it off? |
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French Characters in Word
I too experience my keyboard reverting to French for some unknown reason. I
have a Toshiba Satellite. This has happened to me numerous times. It not only occurs when using MS Word, but also when I am sending emails. It does not allow me to type @, but types " instead. When I type a question mark, I get a french e with the accents. There are french designations in red, on some of my key, but there is nothing that I am doing that I know of that turns it on or off - it just seems to do it on it's own. "Jacqueline M" wrote: When I type in MS Word certain keys are showing up as French characters. I have a Toshiba laptop and the French characters are printed on the keys in red, but in all other programs the keys work just fine. For example, the question mark key comes up ? here just fine, but in MS word it shows up as a capital E with an apostrophe over it. HOW do I turn it off? |
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French Characters in Word
Left ALT + SHIFT took me a while to figure it out but thats what worked for me. if you did it again it would change back to the french e -- wretchedrachel |
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French Characters in Word
i have the same problem with wordperfect (anyone heard of that program?). to turn off french characters press ctrl + shift. you may have to do it a couple of times or hold it down. -- gclawyers |
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French Characters in Word
this totally happened to me as well and the ctrl + shift on the left hand side fixed it. it took a couple times of holding it down to finally get it to not enter the french keys - arrrr dem francais. -- rothwellsmith |