| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 3/5/2008 6:45:14 PM | While typing a POF email I noticed odd symbols showing up.
I type a Z and get a Y.
_ is a question mark , § is the number sign...I know this should be a simple setting to change, please help. I have no comma either ä nor square brackets ü and +
Btw, it is only on POF that this happens, I opened Word and tested it. | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 3/5/2008 7:00:46 PM | Ok, pretend I know nothing about computers...
Within this email I right click and language is US English. I went to Control Panel double click Keyboard and I have no language tab....where else shall I look. | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 3/5/2008 7:35:22 PM | Obviously you know nothing about computers. You see, a computer is like a vegetable: you pour water on it and let it sit in dirt in the sun and then you can eat it. Or not.
On the other hand you may have the wrong font selected. A dingbat font will give you symbols instead of letters. Try your search under the start button and see which fonts are loaded/available. | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 3/5/2008 7:43:41 PM | I am not sure, but I think you referred to me as a dingbat.
I will try that suggestion, thanks.
Ms. Technologically Handicapped | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 3/5/2008 8:00:13 PM | By George, I think she's got it.
Apparently hitting Shift and Alt together did something. # is actually working. | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 3/5/2008 11:48:40 PM | | Yeah, just make sure you don't have the shift/alt keys stuck. Holding these & pressing a combination of various other keys trigger special characters i.e § etc. Many will even work in basic notepad. | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 3/6/2008 8:21:15 AM | Goto control panel, then Regional and Language options, then check all the options to have whatever language, eg for me, it is all UK English
As for the retard above, no need to waffle on about watering computers, some people might actually do it
Would recommend books like PC's for dummies, they give simple what if ? questions and answers
You might need a reboot after the changes, see how it goes :) | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 6/18/2008 1:19:15 PM | Ehh...I am a REAL computer idiot...so please bear with me. . Here is what just happened...
Okay...so I wanted to add a question mark at the end of a sentence and here is what I got instead ... É....why is that (insert question mark) Lol!
And I have just noticed that many of my upper case letters or symbols are not what they should be...my square brackets used to make quotes on forums for example is now coming out as ^ ....HELP!!!! ( and oh yeah...my explanation mark is OBVIOUSLY working just fine ...lol!)
I might add that this happened from one minute to the next within the same post...I don`t THINK I touched anything. I just noticed that I also lost my apostrophe...dang!
Thank you in advance.  | |
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| Keyboard types odd symbols
Posted: 6/18/2008 2:36:07 PM | I guess I'll answer my own post...haha...but even weirder than that ^ is that everything is back to normal now....my question mark is back....woo hoo....but what can cause something like this to happen in the first place I wonder????
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