How to stop quotation mark autoformating to German umlauts

[Guest]

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

 

[Jay Freedman]

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

 

[Klaus Linke]

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