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Problems Typing Quotation Mark, Caret, Apostrophe, or Tilde

Article ID: 126566

Article Last Modified on 12/6/2003

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This article was previously published under Q126566

SYMPTOMS

When you are typing, quotation marks ("), carets (^), apostrophes ('), and tildes (~) do not appear until you press another key.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs when you have the US-International keyboard layout loaded, and is designed to let you use accented characters without remapping the keyboard.

RESOLUTION

To change this behavior, use the International tool in Control Panel to change the keyboard layout from US-International to US.

REFERENCES

For more information about the US-International keyboard layout, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

97738 Using US-Int'l Keyboard Layout to Type Accented Characters


Additional query words: 3.10 3.11 accent grave circumflex

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