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Orrie
Hi,
I was writing a document in Word 2003 in U.S. English, and typed the name of
a place in Spain on the first line. The text included a colon ) and a
hyphen (-). Everything seemed normal. (The line did not use any uniquely
Spanish characters, such as accents, tildes or inverted "!" or "?" symbols.)
To my surprise, when I typed the next line, standard English character
keystrokes produced Spanish characters. The hyphen key (-) produced a curved
apostrophe ('), like a single open-quote mark, and pressing the key again
produced a single close-quote mark. The "=" key produced a Spanish inverted
exclamation point, and the "+" produced an inverted question mark. The colon
) key produced a capital N with a tilde.
I have no idea how this change took place. I checked Tools/Language and the
highlighted language was English (US). Also "Detect language automatically"
was not checked before or after this odd behavior began. I clicked on
Default to make sure English (US) was set as the default language of my
Normal template. However, Word still types Spanish characters when I type
English symbol keys.
What's going on? How can get Word back to the English keyoard? And how can I
prevent this unwanted language switch in the future? If I need to create a
new Normal template to do this, how do I do that?
Thank you.
Orrie
I was writing a document in Word 2003 in U.S. English, and typed the name of
a place in Spain on the first line. The text included a colon ) and a
hyphen (-). Everything seemed normal. (The line did not use any uniquely
Spanish characters, such as accents, tildes or inverted "!" or "?" symbols.)
To my surprise, when I typed the next line, standard English character
keystrokes produced Spanish characters. The hyphen key (-) produced a curved
apostrophe ('), like a single open-quote mark, and pressing the key again
produced a single close-quote mark. The "=" key produced a Spanish inverted
exclamation point, and the "+" produced an inverted question mark. The colon
) key produced a capital N with a tilde.
I have no idea how this change took place. I checked Tools/Language and the
highlighted language was English (US). Also "Detect language automatically"
was not checked before or after this odd behavior began. I clicked on
Default to make sure English (US) was set as the default language of my
Normal template. However, Word still types Spanish characters when I type
English symbol keys.
What's going on? How can get Word back to the English keyoard? And how can I
prevent this unwanted language switch in the future? If I need to create a
new Normal template to do this, how do I do that?
Thank you.
Orrie