My question is below...

"Ken Blake" wrote:

> In news:F5EB4AE4-3AD5-4FA5-905E-194E89A04240@microsoft.com,
> Markham30 <Markham30@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>
> > Thank you Ken, that fixed the problem. Much appreciated.
>
>
> You're welcome. Glad to help.
>
> --
> Ken Blake
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
> > "Ken Blake" wrote:
> >
> >> In news:AA840A48-25E9-439A-9EF9-9F07519CB897@microsoft.com,
> >> Markham30 <Markham30@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> >>
> >>> When I type a quotation mark(") in Office, Wordpad, Notepad,
> >>> Outlook
> >>> Express, Internet Explorer etc. it doesn't appear until I
> >>> type
> >>> the
> >>> next character. Particularly annoying with closing quotation
> >>> marks
> >>> where you have to press space bar twice, once to show the
> >>> quotation
> >>> mark then again to show the space.
> >>>
> >>> Also when I type the quotation mark followed by any vowel,
> >>> two
> >>> dots
> >>> appear over the letter eg. ö or ä. I am using
> >>> English(Australia) as
> >>> the region and lanuage setting. I have seen this problem on
> >>> other
> >>> PC's and other versions of Windows.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> You're using the US-International keyboard layout, which is
> >> provided to facilitate typing special characters like ä. This
> >> can
> >> be turned off in Control Panel | Regional and Language Options
> >> |
> >> Languages | Details | Settings.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> >> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

Hi, I have the same problem with the quotation mark, BUT I like to be able
to type umlauts such as ä and ö. So generally this "United
States-International" keyboard layout is exactly what I need (I can use the
right-hand side ALT key to type all kinds of umlauts), but I would like the
quotation marks ' and " to behave as in the United States (Standard) layout.
How can I have the advantage of the AltGr key AND the normal behaviour of the
quotation marks?

Thanks
Freeman

"Freeman" <Freeman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:48A340D6-7E86-4DA8-934D-974206512B92@microsoft.com...

> Hi, I have the same problem with the quotation mark, BUT I like to be able
> to type umlauts such as ä and ö. So generally this "United
> States-International" keyboard layout is exactly what I need (I can use
> the
> right-hand side ALT key to type all kinds of umlauts), but I would like
> the
> quotation marks ' and " to behave as in the United States (Standard)
> layout.
> How can I have the advantage of the AltGr key AND the normal behaviour of
> the
> quotation marks?
>
> Thanks
> Freeman

Use the Microsoft keyboard remapper so that Alt+; generates ö, Alt+' does ä
and Alt+[ does ü. You can find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx.

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:48:01 -0800, Freeman
<Freeman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My question is below...


You replied to a message I sent on June 15, 2005--4.5 years ago?

Please don't do that in the future. If you have a new question, start
it in a new thread, don't reply to an old message.

But my answer is below.



> Hi, I have the same problem with the quotation mark, BUT I like to be able
> to type umlauts such as ä and ö. So generally this "United
> States-International" keyboard layout is exactly what I need (I can use the
> right-hand side ALT key to type all kinds of umlauts), but I would like the
> quotation marks ' and " to behave as in the United States (Standard) layout.
> How can I have the advantage of the AltGr key AND the normal behaviour of the
> quotation marks?


I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars. This lets me, in all applications, type many common special
characters (many of these are used in other languages) by pressing the
ctrl key followed by a two character mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

I think this is much better than the "United States-International"
keyboard layout.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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