romance language quotation mark

[caroline.winschel]

I don't know how I managed it, but suddenly, when I hit Shift+' in
Word, instead of getting ", I wind up with something vaguely akin to
<<--that is, instead of the English language quotation mark, I get the
romance language quotation mark. This doesn't happen in any other
program, obviously; it's just a Word phenomena. I would love to be able
to write my papers in Word rather than in TextEdit, so if anyone has
any ideas, please advise!

Thanks!
Caroline Winschel

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Sounds like your keyboard is set to some other language layout.

Go to Apple Menu | System Preferences | International | Input Menu, and make
sure all the checked settings are ones you would actually want to use.

If you check the box for "show input menu in menu bar", then a flag
representing the keyboard layout will show up in the menu bar. I have
noticed that occasionally my flag will randomly switch in Word, I *think*
when I am opening documents from other people, and this may be happening to
you. But I just switch it back without problems.

On my machine, at least, changing the menu flag in Word does not change it
in TextEdit. Interesting.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

On my machine, at least, changing the menu flag in Word does not change it
in TextEdit. Interesting.

Correct. It's app=specific.

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[matt neuburg]

Correct. It's app=specific.

Not necessarily. OMM, if I change the keyboard layout and then switch to
another app, the keyboard layout does NOT change. So I'd have to
conclude that it's app-specific if you've set the preference that makes
it app-specific, but not if you haven't. m.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

On my machine, at least, changing the menu flag in Word does not change it

Not necessarily. OMM, if I change the keyboard layout and then switch to
another app, the keyboard layout does NOT change. So I'd have to
conclude that it's app-specific if you've set the preference that makes
it app-specific, but not if you haven't. m.

This would be a more helpful comment if you also mentioned *which*
preference controls it being app-specific, Matt. Feel like sharing? I'm
not seeing anything relevant in Sys Prefs>International.

However, for the Original Poster, if you click on Options in Sys
Prefs>International>Input Menu, there is a setting "try to match keyboard to
text" which I suspect is the cause of Word randomly changing from US to US
Extended for me, and may also be the cause of your original problem.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

This would be a more helpful comment if you also mentioned *which*
preference controls it being app-specific, Matt. Feel like sharing? I'm
not seeing anything relevant in Sys Prefs>International.

However, for the Original Poster, if you click on Options in Sys
Prefs>International>Input Menu, there is a setting "try to match keyboard to
text" which I suspect is the cause of Word randomly changing from US to US
Extended for me, and may also be the cause of your original problem.

I thin you're still stuck in Panther, Daiya? In Tiger, there's no such pref,
but there are a pair of radio buttons under "Options", with two other prefs,
mutually exclusive:

€ Use one input source in all documents
€ Allow a different input source for each document

This may be what Matt meant (he's in Tiger). The pref option is actually per
document, not per app, but probably your main language (from
International/Language) is the default in each app until you change it for a
doc, and then it sticks in that app unless changed again, so changing it in
one app for one doc does not change anything in other apps - if you've
selected the second radio button above.

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[Daiya Mitchell]

I think you're still stuck in Panther, Daiya?

I'm not "stuck" in Panther. I could upgrade to Tiger for free, but don't. I
like Panther.

Thanks for the clarification on whether the menu flag is app-specific or
not.

Daiya