keyboard letters have changed when typing in MS word?

Question

when i use MS word now in windows xp, if i want to type "@", i now have to press shift>2 instead of pressing shift>" ' ".

have i changed some settings.

this is so annoying,

any help is much appreciated.

thanks

Answer 1

You now have a US keyboard layout instead of a UK Ireland layout.



Check different keyboard layout here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout



To change it



go to control panel > Regional and language option > keyboard setting tab > change it to English UK and it should fix it.

Answer 2

You have changed your keyboard layout to american rather than english.



Go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards & Languages and change settings there.

Answer 3

In Japan, we use Latin-based keyboards with Hiragana on them, so letter keys have both alphabets and Hiragana. (i.e. Alphabet "A" and Hiragana "ち" are in the same letter key.) The majority of Japanese people type the Japanese words using the Latin alphabets on the keyboard, and the program automatically converts it into Hiragana. If it is the right character, we press [Enter] to confirm it. If what is displayed is not the correct one, we press [Space bar] and will see the list of the characters (several kinds of kanji and katakana). In order to select a character, we either click on the character or press the number of the character on the keyboard. This process is the same for those who use Hiragana on their keyboards. Compared to Latin-alphabet countries, we have additional works to display our language on the screen! Note: The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of glyphs: kanji (there are about 50,000 kanji but about 2,000 are mainly used in daily life.), hiragana (46 cases), and katakana (46 cases).

Answer 4

You may have changed the keyboard language. Go to Tools/Language/Set language to select the language that matches your keyboard (Probably US english, International English or UK English).



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