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A belated Happy New Year to all.

After reinstalling Windows XP I now have to hit the @ key to get ” and vice versa. I’ve checked my language and keyboard settings in the Control Panel but all seems OK there. I’m probably missing something simple. Any ideas?

TIA

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This sounds like you have a UK keyboard with US keyboard settings, or vice versa.

> I’ve checked my language and keyboard settings in the Control Panel

Can you be a bit more explicit here. Where on your keyboard are the ” and @ keys, and what values have you set for language and keyboard.

StuartR

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Hi Stuart.

The “key is the shift 2 key and the ” key is the shift ‘ key, ie standard. All other shift operations seem to work as expected. I’ve supplied a screenshot of the settings.

Thanks

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Hi rob,

Best wishes for 2008!

What does the Languages tab in the same dialog say?

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Can you try this…

• Right click the taskbar and from the Toolbars menu select Language
• Click the down arrow on the Language bar and choose Settings…
• Compare your display to this one
  [/list]Also please clarify
  > The “key is the shift 2 key and the ” key is the shift ‘ key, ie standard
  Is this a UK keyboard with the @ key on the shift ‘, or a US keyboard with the @ key on the shift 2?

  StuartR

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Thanks Stuart and Hans for the input. Sorry for the delay in responding – power problems.
I compared my settings with your graphic. Their was an additional US entry which I removed. All is now well and yes, it is a UK keyboard.

All the best for 2008.

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