In English(Canadian), yet most punctuation does not work

[Guest]

I installed Office this morning. The language settings appear to be fine
(i.e. english), but most of the punctuation does not work. For example, the
question mark appears as an upper-case E with an accent. There is no problem
in other programs, so it is not the overall keyboard settings on the computer.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

You probably have an international keyboard layout selected in Windows.
See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306560 "How To Use the United
States-International Keyboard Layout in Windows XP", except that you
want to select the standard U.S. keyboard instead of the
U.S.-International keyboard.