Office can't recognize custom-made layout

[daniel.lschiller]

Hello all

I recently switched to the mac, and one thing has been a problem: the
kb layout.

I am Brazilian, but there weren't any proper Brazilian keyboard layout
available in OS X (Brazilian and Portuguese in the International Pref
Pane have nothing to do with the actual layout). So after some
searching I finally found and installed a custom layout which works
fine in every application (iWork, Firefox, Safari, etc), except for
the Office apps, which refuse to recognize the 12th bottom-row key
(which is responsible for "/" and "?") of my keyboard.

This link ( http://www.ciadosoftware.com.br/imprensa/2412.jpg ) shows
a standard brazilian keyboard with the 12th bottom row key.

Does anyone know what I can do to make Word, Excel and PP recognize
this key?

Thanks for the support
Daniel

 

[Priyanka Singhal]

Hi Daniel,
Have you tried the input menu tab in International Pref Pane. I see that it
has one layout for Brazilian and 1 for Portuguese.
here is what you do
1. Open System Preferences and click International.

2. Click Input Menu.

3. Select the checkbox next to the keyboard layout you want to use.

4. Select the "Show input menu in menu bar" checkbox.

5. Click the input menu icon in the upper-right corner of the menu bar.

6. Choose the keyboard layout from the menu and start typing.

If this is what you have already tried and does not work for you please post
back

Thanks,

Priyanka