How to stop quotation mark autoformating to German umlauts

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I have a new laptop purchased in Belgium. My language is set to US English.
However, quotation marks seem to be formatted to convert vowels to German
umlauts. E.g., Ä Ö Ü is the result of typing the quotation mark key followed
by the vowel, instead of showing a quotation mark. For consonants, I have to
type the key twice for a quotation mark to show, and then it's two quotation
marks side by side: "" So I have to go back and delete one of them. At the
end of my quotation, the mark doesn't show until I hit the space bar to start
the next word, and then there's no space between it and the next word.
Example, end of quote"here's the next word
 
There are several steps to changing the language; doing it only in
Word isn't sufficient. See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for the rest.

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Jay Freedman
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:01:24 -0800, American in Brussels <American in
 
In particular, it sounds like your Windows keyboard layout is set to "United
States-International" (control panel, regional and language options >
language tab > details), and should be set to the "US" layout.

Regards,
Klaus
 
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