How do you turn off keys making special characters?

[RobSmy]

Sometimes some keys begin registering different characters, like an accented
E when I press apostrophe (not after an Alt). The only way I can turn this
off is save my work, exit word, and restart. What's the official way to
return my keyboard to normal?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You need to switch keyboards from an international layout to your usual one.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[grammatim]

You probably accidentally typed LeftAlt-Shift, which toggles/cycles
through the installed keyboards. You can remove any keyboards you know
you're never going to use, but you do that differently in XP or Vista.
(You begin with Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options,
and can probably figure it out from there.)

 

[Pablo Cardellino]

Switch the input language, which is a property of Windows system. Try just
ctrl+shift for switching, or alt + shift. You can disable the keyboard
shortcut here:
Control Panel > Regional and language settings > Languages > Details > Key
settings