what am I doing wrong on keyboard?

17 years ago

Every once in a while I accidentally hit something on my keyboard that messes with my typing. When I've done this, I can't type an apostrophy, quotation marks, or a question mark, because they come out as the letter "e" with variations of a French accent symbol above the letter. My DH and DS never have this happen to them, and neither can figure out what I'm inadvertently pressing on the keyboard that causes this to happen. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I thought I'd ask before the next time this happens, so I'll know how to fix it. Thanks.

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Jodi_SoCal
17 years ago
Check to see if turning your Num Lock key on or off makes a difference. Num Lock is at the upper left of the small keypad on the right of your keyboard.

Jodi-
amicus
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17 years ago
jodi, I don't have a small keypad to the right on my keyboard, and unlike my "Num Lock" key on the left of my keyboard, there is no key anywhere that says "Num Lock", so I'm still stumped : (
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Jodi_SoCal
17 years ago
My suggestion using the process of elimination. Press each F key once (F1. F2, F3, etc) and see if the problem is fixed. If not, press the F key again and move on to the next.

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Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
17 years ago
You might try asking at the link below.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Computer Help
lydia1959
17 years ago
I must do something similar because sometimes when I type a apostrophe... everything I type afterwards will go into the search box at the bottom of my page! Very frustrating. Usually closing the window and opening a new one will fix the problem.
okwriter
17 years ago
Every once in awhile, my letters don't capitalize. Rather than a hardware issue, I suspect there is something stuck under my left Shift key...perhaps a piece of black licorice, saltine cracker, glazed donut, plain (or Ranch) Dorito, hot Cheez It, supreme pizza, Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, wheat bread, candy corn, mini-Snickers, dried grape, sour cream and onion potato chip...
tami_ohio
17 years ago
Rita, that's my finger missing the shift key and hitting the cap lock instead!

Picky, Sorry, I have no clue how to help you. I will be interested in the answer, tho.

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secsteve
17 years ago
Picky you'd be better off posting this on the computer help forum. Those folks have helped me out many a time.
many_hats
17 years ago
Hi Picky...

This is my very first time perusing this forum and your post caught my eye as I have recently had the same thing happen to me. I played around with the keyboard and found that if I press Control and Shift together, those funny characters will appear and pressing that same keystroke combination TWICE will revert your keyboard to "normal" again. HTH!
sheesh
17 years ago
I have a Mac. To get the symbols you are getting, I simultaneously press the option key and the appropriate key for the option I want. All the symbols used in foreign languages, equations, copyrights, math, etc., are located on the Mac system in this manner. Every key on the keyboard has an "option" in it.

For example, if I press option n, I get an ÃÂ±, option e gets me ÃÂ©. You are probably accidentally pressing and holding the option key while you strike the letter you want.
sheesh
17 years ago
On a Mac it's the Alt/option key. It's probably just the alt key on a PC.
amicus
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17 years ago
Thank you all so much for your help. I've saved this page so I can try the suggestions you've given me, next time the problem occurs. If I still can't solve it, I'll consult the Computer Forum as suggested. Geez, I admit I usually only go on this forum and sometimes the Kitchen one and didn't even notice the Computer Forum.

okwriter, haha, maybe I need to look for U.F.O.'s (unidentified food objects) inside my keyboard ; )

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