Solve : Keyboard error?

1.	Solve : Keyboard error?
Answer» Hello, When I press shift 2 to get an "at" sign, I get a " parenthesis response instead of 'at' so I can't type my email address. I am running Microsoft 8.1 on a new ASUS NOTEBOOK. Can anyone help, please?If you can get the sign when you press the key with a double quote " then you probably need to select a US English keyboard layout. Thank you, Salmon, however I don't know which is the double quote key (is it the one with " and ' on it)? If so how do I change the keyboard? Regards, Quote from: Susan Brown on April 11, 2015, 03:03:23 AM I don't know which is the double quote key (is it the one with " and ' on it)? Yes. Did you try it? Not yet, eating dinner Quote from: Susan Brown on April 11, 2015, 03:22:46 AM Not yet, eating dinner Yet you managed to reply? Different computerAnyhow, here are instructions for changing your keyboard layout in Windows 8.1 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/change-keyboard-layout Ok tried it but no luck, just got ' What now?Did you USE Shift? I have looked at the keyboards that are enabled. They are English US and English UKNo i hadn't tried holding down Shift. It works! I now have an sign albeit in a strange place. Thank you for your patienceOn the English UK keyboard (which I am using): The symbol is a shifted single quote and it is on the 3rd row from the top, slightly to the left of the Enter key. The " symbol is a shifted 2 and is on the top row. On the US English keyboard layout the keys are slightly different and, among other things, the symbol and the " symbols are swapped. It sounds LIKE you need to select the RIGHT keyboard layout by doing what I SUGGESTED above. It sounds like your notebook has been set up for the wrong country. Did you buy it new, and has anybody set it up for you? Maybe it was imported from another country? Thank you!Are you going to try setting the keyboard layout for your country? You may find that the hash key and the British Pound currency symbol are wrong, as well as a number of others.

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Hello,
When I press shift 2 to get an "at" sign, I get a " parenthesis response instead of 'at' so I can't type my email address.
I am running Microsoft 8.1 on a new ASUS NOTEBOOK.
Can anyone help, please?If you can get the sign when you press the key with a double quote " then you probably need to select a US English keyboard layout.
Thank you, Salmon, however I don't know which is the double quote key (is it the one with " and ' on it)? If so how do I change the keyboard?
Regards, Quote from: Susan Brown on April 11, 2015, 03:03:23 AM

I don't know which is the double quote key (is it the one with " and ' on it)?

Yes. Did you try it?

Not yet, eating dinner

Quote from: Susan Brown on April 11, 2015, 03:22:46 AM

Not yet, eating dinner

Yet you managed to reply?
Different computerAnyhow, here are instructions for changing your keyboard layout in Windows 8.1

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/change-keyboard-layout

Ok tried it but no luck, just got '
What now?Did you USE Shift?
I have looked at the keyboards that are enabled. They are English US and English UKNo i hadn't tried holding down Shift. It works! I now have an sign albeit in a strange place.
Thank you for your patienceOn the English UK keyboard (which I am using): The symbol is a shifted single quote and it is on the 3rd row from the top, slightly to the left of the Enter key. The " symbol is a shifted 2 and is on the top row.

On the US English keyboard layout the keys are slightly different and, among other things, the symbol and the " symbols are swapped.

It sounds LIKE you need to select the RIGHT keyboard layout by doing what I SUGGESTED above.

It sounds like your notebook has been set up for the wrong country. Did you buy it new, and has anybody set it up for you? Maybe it was imported from another country?

Thank you!Are you going to try setting the keyboard layout for your country?

You may find that the hash key and the British Pound currency symbol are wrong, as well as a number of others.

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