french accents in word and in outlook

[idlewood]

I suddenly have a problem - when I try to type a question mark or quotation
marks, it types an accented letter. I'm working in Microsoft 7 and I've
checked the language in the control panel. I think I must have hit a wrong
key because this just started today, i had no trouble using these keys
yesterday. Any suggestions??

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Perhaps you have a laptop with a built-in International keyboard. If
so, somewhere there's a key that toggles between it and the normal US
keyboard. Locate that key and type it again.

Maybe you toggled/cycled to a different keyboard (by accidentally
pressing LeftAlt+Shift). If you keep pressing that combination, you'll
eventually get back to your normal keyboard.

If you're sure you have no use for extra keyboards, you can go to
Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options and follow the
buttons and tabs for deleting a keyboard (not for deleting a
language).

This is a Windows thing, not a Word thing.

No idea what "Microsoft 7" is. Perhaps either Windows 7 or Word2007?

 

[Diane]

Go back into Control panel, in to Regional & Languague Options, go to the
Language tab and select Details button. Under the Installed Services you
will see the keyboard option. There should be 3 entries, 2 Canadian and 1
US. Delete both the Canadian ones and leave the US. Ok your way out of the
control panel. If you are currently in a document or email, you may have to
close it and reopen it before the setting will take place.
Hope this helps.
Diane

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

This refers specifically to _your_ installation on _your_ machine --
and you didn't even say which version of Windows you're using. Most
people won't see "Canadian" keyboards by default!