Using foreign language accents with Speech?

[birdfishy]

I have been using the Speech option with Word in Office 2003 and find it
works pretty well. The only snag is that I can usually type foreign language
accents (e.g. ALT+ 0128 for the euro sign) but it doesn't work in this case.

Even when I am not using Speech, I now cannot type accents in word any more.
Also, " and @ are interchanged.

Help in restoring the keyboard status is very welcome.

Sincerely

(Mr) Robin Salmon
Perth
Australia

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?YmlyZGZpc2h5?=,

I have been using the Speech option with Word in Office 2003 and find it
works pretty well. The only snag is that I can usually type foreign language
accents (e.g. ALT+ 0128 for the euro sign) but it doesn't work in this case.

Even when I am not using Speech, I now cannot type accents in word any more.
Also, " and @ are interchanged.

Help in restoring the keyboard status is very welcome.

It would help to know which version of Windows is involved, otherwise, I can
give you only very general instructions.

Most likely, Windows has changed the keyboard used for input. Probably to US
English, from the sound of it. Windows provides a Language Bar that I see in
the Windows task bar, but you might not. You should be able to access it,
though, through the Regional Language Settings (or something similar) in the
Windows Control Panel. There, you can also add and remove input languages and
keyboard layouts, and set the default.

Most likely, since speech is basically US English-based, it's installed that
keyboard input and set it as your system default.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[birdfishy]

Hi

I am afraid that did not help. I spent about 40 minutes on it again.

I use Windows XP and Office 2003. The language bar appears when I dictate
and I use the UK English setting. The default keyboard is English Australia
(US) but even when I change the keyboards to US and UK, rebooting the while,
there is no difference.

Robin

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?YmlyZGZpc2h5?=,

I use Windows XP and Office 2003. The language bar appears when I dictate
and I use the UK English setting. The default keyboard is English Australia
(US) but even when I change the keyboards to US and UK, rebooting the while,
there is no difference.

Well, this is basically a Windows problem (that's where keyboards are
controlled), but...

If you go to Control Panel/Regional and Language Options/Languages/Details

1. Which languages are listed there
2. With which keyboards
3. Which of these is "bolded"
4. What appears as the Default, at the top

what key combinations are you pressing where you say " and @ are interchanged?
And which keyboard layout is active at this point?

Finally, I take it that English Australian is your preferred language setting.
which is your preferred keyboard setting?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[birdfishy]

Hi

I am afraid that did not help. I spent about 40 minutes on it again.

I use Windows XP and Office 2003. The language bar appears when I dictate
and I use the UK English setting. The default keyboard is English Australia
(US) but even when I change the keyboards to US and UK, rebooting the while,
there is no difference.

Robin

Thanks very much for your help. I solved the problem a few days ago by
installing English Australia as the default language and it has the US
keyboard. I had changed the language to English UK because I am originally
from there and that's the language version I translate into (not English US
or English Australia). Accents appearing again!

Grüße

Robin Salmon

robtrans
DE/FR>EN
Perth
Australia