Quotation marks: have to hit space bar for them to appear

[Arnold]

I use Word in Office 2003. Whenever I type quotation marks, they do not
appear on the screen unless I hit the space bar. It happens at the beginning
and the end of a quote. It seems to be the only character that behaves that
way. Does not matter if I use smart or regular quotation marks.
I cannot find anything relating to this behavior in the various tabs in Word.

Any ideas?

Arnold

 

[grammatim]

Your keyboard is probably set to some other language where the Quote
key is a dead key that triggers some other action, like a variant form
or an accented form of some letter.

You deal with this in different ways depending on what your version of
Windows is, but they involve Start > Control Panel > Regional &
Language Options.