How do I prevent the need for another keystroke after a quotation

[idodclare]

I would like to be able to turn off the function that requires me to press
another key after I have put in quotation marks. Older versions of Word did
not require this.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have doubtless enabled an international keyboard in which the apostrophe
and quote keys are dead keys for accents. Go to Control Panel | Keyboard |
Input Locales and make sure you have an English (US) or (UK) keyboard
selected.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I would like to be able to turn off the function that requires me to press
another key after I have put in quotation marks. Older versions of Word did
not require this.

This behavior indicates that you have some language other than English
enabled in Windows for your keyboard. Read at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm how to set the
keyboard language correctly.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[idodclare]

When I go into control panel, keyboards, there is nothing that says input
locales, all it says is speed and hardware

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If there is no Input Locale tab in your Keyboard dialog, try Regional
Options instead.

 

[idodclare]

There is no Regional Options under Keyboard, but there is in Control Panel,
that is set to English(Australian) which is what I require for spelling etc.
I changed this yesterday to English (American) and it didn't make any
difference to the quotation marks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I meant look for Input Locales under Regional Options. This may vary with
Windows versions, but in Windows 2000, you have to click Change, then select
"English (United States)." You may need to restart Windows.

 

[idodclare]

Thank you. Thank you. Finally it has worked. Needed to go to Regional &
Languages, the Advance settings and then change it from English (US) to
English (Australian). It then prompted me to restart and it has worked.
Thank you very much.

 

[Bill]

Sorry for using the reply function. I tried starting a new thread but to no
avail. Not sure what the issue is.

I'm working in Off 2007 with Vista. I`m having issues with quotation marks
and apostrophes that I can`t seem to fix using the solutions in this
grouping. As you can see, when I type apostrophes or quotation marks, I first
get nothing, then I get an apostrophe which is backwards.

Nothing I've tried - including looking in Control Panel has worked. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm hopeful that someone sees thi spost.

Regards,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have enabled an international keyboard layout. The settings you need
will be found in Control Panel | Regional Options.

 

[WinkinVan]

Thanks Suzanne,

It turned out that I had a couple of supplementary items installed. They
were a Frnech language keyboard and a Canadian multilingual keyboard. When
those were unchecked, everything was fine when I restarted my computer.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Bill