Bug with recognition of apostrophe key. V. Frustrating!!

[Andrew]

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Just hoping someone has a way to fix a bug that has been on my system since a
recent reformat. In any program, pressing the apostrophe key just once won't
make either apostrophes or quotes appear. Any second keystroke will cause
them to pop up, but it's a pain whenever editing, as you need to delete the
'confirmation' keystroke. I just want this to go away, but can't find any
setting to fix it.

I am in Australia, incidentally, in case this is an international newsgroup.
Running XP Pro.

 

[galen]

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In news:288860E5-8EA4-482F-98C1-5F9983696583@microsoft.com,
Andrew <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Just hoping someone has a way to fix a bug that has been on my system
> since a recent reformat. In any program, pressing the apostrophe key
> just once won't make either apostrophes or quotes appear. Any second
> keystroke will cause them to pop up, but it's a pain whenever
> editing, as you need to delete the 'confirmation' keystroke. I just
> want this to go away, but can't find any setting to fix it.
>
> I am in Australia, incidentally, in case this is an international
> newsgroup. Running XP Pro.

Are you using an international keyboard? If you are then switch to one that
fits? Do you use the UK keyboard there??? I really don't know but if you're
using an international keyboard the pressing of that key and then a letter
will make something like this é and pressing (on the way I have it setup)
ctrl + alt and then a key will make other special characters come up such as
these: ²³®åü etc....

Galen
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