Problems with Shift key and OE6

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Rodger Buckley

! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _
! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +

When I use the "Shift' key to select the symbols on the numerical keys,the
above symbols appear.

This only happens when sending emails,Word,Excel and Notepad all .OK

I am unable to return to the "normal"symbols.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rodger Buckley.

(e-mail address removed)
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Stephen;
! " £ $ % ^ & * ( )_ + is what he expects. He is in Australia. No the US
like us. :-)
And the keyboard can be changed from the Control Panel.
Wes
 
*Not in the US like us.*
Wes

Wesley said:
Stephen;
! " £ $ % ^ & * ( )_ + is what he expects. He is in Australia.
No the US like us. :-)
And the keyboard can be changed from the Control Panel.
Wes
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Wrong. "Us" are not all in US. :-)

Some of "us" are in Australia, and we don't expect ! " £ $ % ^ & * ( )_ +

In Australia we use "!@#$%^&*()_+"

We gave up that funny "£" thing 37 years ago - same time we gave up those
funny "inch" thingies and weird paper sizes that Yanks have
anachronistically stuck with :-)

We Aussies even sent Rupert Murdoch over there to show you how to produce a
newspaper! :-)

Lost any good space probes recently (as happened a while back because one
NASA bloke worked in miles and another in kilometres? :-)

Pemo
 
He did say, though that it works fine in Word, Notepad, etc. So maybe the problem is in OE (since
that's what he's using). I looked through the options and didn't find anything relevant, though.

Stephen
 
Yes, a VERY expensive one. At the factory! The contractors went to rotate it
within its special frame. It fell out and landed on the floor. Seems another
team had "borrowed" the special bolts that held it in the frame, and not
bothered to return them...
But this cannot be blamed on our fear of the metric system. At least, not
directly. :>}
 
Pemo;
When I said like us, I meant Stephan, Bill and myself. I meant nothing
else, however it may have sounded. :-)
Seriously, I meant absolutely nothing disrespectful. A lot of Yanks forget
there are others in this world and they don't all use US English. I forget who
said this, and I am paraphrasing. " English, the thing that divides two
countries." Referring to the US and the UK. :-)
I assumed that Rodger is in Australia from the suffix .au in his address.
Maybe it stands for army underwear. :-)
His time is GMT + 1000, like yours. So I still assume Australia. Or
somewhere in that time zone.
!@#$%^&*()_+ is the qwerty keyboard.
I used to use the funny £ thing with my Commodore 64C.
I like those funny inch thingies, I happen to have quite a few. ;-)
I have Rupert's newspapers lining my bird cage. :-)
You darn Aussies, Brits, Canadians, Irishmen, Kiwis and Scots; none of ya
can spell Kilometer. Or program or color among others. <LOL>
But seriously. I had a friend, when I attended college in Iowa, who was
from Canada. Yes, I had a friend. :-) He had to attend a remedial English
class because of his spelling.
No kidding.
I have to share this one with you. I worked on a project here in the
States where there were a bunch of guys from Ireland. Mostly from Dublin or
near there. One fellow, in particular, was really hard to understand. I
always thought that it was an American trait to speak really loud when we
aren't understood in English. Not so.
I was on a another project here with a bunch of New Zealanders. I was
telling the above story to one of them. He says, "I know what you mean. I was
talking to a guy from Dublin and he would keep repeating himself, only louder.
I said the volume is not the problem." :-)
I was on another project here. Three guys worked together as a team. One
was originally from Cambodia. One was from Nebraska, he always had a mouth
full of chew. And the last guy was from Kansas, he mumbled. Nobody could
understand these guys. The funny thing was, they could understand each other.
What a hoot listening to 'em.
The guy you sent over here that got us straightened out was Paul Hogan!!
Well, I've rambled enough. Just doing my part, spreading good will. Or is it
BS? :-)
G'day Mate,
Wes
 
Stephen;
The symbols I typed were in OE and there are some Language options in OE.
I also typed those symbols in NotePad. I don't want to "mess up" my keyboard
experimenting again. I have a hard enough time with it the regular way. :-)
OE/Help/Contents and Index/Index tab/type Language. I looked the other day
for a fella.
I have Word 2000 and there are all kinds of references in Word Help.
He'll probably get an answer from another Aussie. :-)
In the mean time we have something light-hearted to screw around with. Cheers.
Wes
 
Rodger said:
! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _
! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +

When I use the "Shift' key to select the symbols on the numerical keys,the
above symbols appear.
Click to expand...
Those are the standard shifted numbers for a US keyboard layout. Not
sure what you would expect in Australia, but check at Control Panel -
Regional and Language, Languages page, click Details and check what
layouts you have (you can add more, and remove ones you do not want),
then select the right one for your keyboard in the Default layout pane
 
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