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How do I change my keyboard so that when I type ' and " I can get letters such as é and ü straight from the keyboard? 

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Omg I finally found the answer!

 

I contacted HP tech support by telephone and they provided me the following links:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/keyboard-shortcuts-for-international-characters-HP005186...

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Search/Search?SearchTerm=how+to+enable+to+short+cut+using+special...

 

From the second link, I was able to find the following document:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560

 

Which describes the exact layout that I wanted. So to get the foreign language characters (e.g. ' and e = é) the default language (in Region and Language in control panel) needs to be changed to English (US) - United States-International. If you don't want the foreign language characters (e.g. ' and e = 'e) then the default language needs to be English (US) - US.

 

I think my settings got changed when I told Microsoft Word to make the default language English (Australia) so then I just needed to change the default language in Region and Language to English (Australia) - United States-International rather than English (Australia) - US.

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Can someone please help?

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I still need help with this!

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Does my question not make sense? Or does no one know the answer to it?

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I'd like to know how to *stop* getting those characters, and have posted in this Forum asking basically that.

If someone answers my question, it might prove to be the answer to yours as well.

 

Good luck to both of us.

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Haha I love your user name!

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I just read your threads... When I had the setting that I am looking for turned on, I didn't lose the function of keys like ? and @.

 

Instead keys like ' and " and ^ that are used to make symbols such as ó and ÿ and ê would only work after another key was pressed after them. If that key was a letter that would create one of the symbols, then it would make that symbol, but if it was a letter unrelated to any symbol, it would simply have the two characters separately, like 'p and "t and ^f. The character could be put on its own by pressing the space bar after the ' or " or ^.

 

For example:

 

' and o make ó

" and y make ÿ 

^ and e make ê

' and p make 'p

" and t make "t

^ and f make ^f

' and space make '

" and space make "

^ and space make ^

 

I think both our problems have something to do with the language keyboard setting icon thingy in the task bar, but mine has disappeared since the setting has been switched off...

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Can someone please assist me with this?!!!

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I STILL NEED HELP WITH THIS! I AM ANGRY AND GOING TO KEEP POSTING UNTIL I GET THE HELP I NEED!

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SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!
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