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how do you turn off the french keyboard?

i have a major essay due but im a technology illiterate and cant turn off the damned french setting!! please help!!

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MarmaladeFreak offline Verified User (1 month) Shouts: 11 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month ago (3 hours, 10 minutes after post)

Can you explain what you meant by french setting? You using Microsoft Word right- you meant the language is in French…Sorry wasn’t sure what you meant but yea please explain more?

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campion offline Verified User (1 month) Shouts: 97 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month ago (3 hours, 27 minutes after post)

well, the language on the screen is fine, but my keyboard has some setting that changes a question mark into an e with a dash over it, and everything else iss all over the place; basically, it’s like having a french keyboard instead of an english keyboard.

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MarmaladeFreak offline Verified User (1 month) Shouts: 11 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month ago (3 hours, 38 minutes after post)

Lol I see … Ok try going to Tools-Options and you could try ticking or un-ticking the boxes…I’ve had this randomn sign appear automatically at the end of each paragraph before but yea I found the solution through Tools - Options …Hope am being helpful. Just tell me straight if I did get what you mean or not

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MarmaladeFreak offline Verified User (1 month) Shouts: 11 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month ago (4 hours, 57 minutes after post)

Ok I got this off a randomn website:

You’ve got a different keyboard selected, possibly French or Canadian
French.

On my Vista system, I had to delete that keyboard map to keep it from being
randomly enabled. I never did figure out what was selecting it, and while
I’m Canadian, I have no reason to install a French keyboard map (and
wouldn’t have done so). I disabled every hotkey I could find related to
it and it would still switch.

Control Panel, Regional and Language Options, Keyboards and Languages,
Change Keyboards. Select the keyboard you that’s causing you grief and
choose Remove.

If you don’t remove the keyboard map, when this switch happens, you’ll have
to exit the application you’re in (Outlook, for example), change keyboards,
and restart the app. Changing keyboards without restarting the app doesn’t
seem to change the mapping.

Yea so try that & hope it works lol

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campion offline Verified User (1 month) Shouts: 97 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month ago (17 hours, 4 minutes after post)

MarmaladeFreak wrote:
Ok I got this off a randomn website:

You’ve got a different keyboard selected, possibly French or Canadian
French.

On my Vista system, I had to delete that keyboard map to keep it from being
randomly enabled. I never did figure out what was selecting it, and while
I’m Canadian, I have no reason to install a French keyboard map (and
wouldn’t have done so). I disabled every hotkey I could find related to
it and it would still switch.

Control Panel, Regional and Language Options, Keyboards and Languages,
Change Keyboards. Select the keyboard you that’s causing you grief and
choose Remove.

If you don’t remove the keyboard map, when this switch happens, you’ll have
to exit the application you’re in (Outlook, for example), change keyboards,
and restart the app. Changing keyboards without restarting the app doesn’t
seem to change the mapping.

Yea so try that & hope it works lol

thanx so much, i had to put up with it for two hours yesterday. im so bad with computers!! but it worked, thank you!

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mistydnbrow offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 week, 5 days ago (2 weeks, 5 days after post)

shift and ctrl(on the left side of the keyboard) and the alt button(on the right side of the keyboard, it says alt car in red)all at the same time worked on my Toshiba Satelite.

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mistydnbrow offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 week, 5 days ago (2 weeks, 5 days after post)

dont post my previous message. It didnèt work after all.

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campion offline Verified User (1 month) Shouts: 97 #
An Unknown Location | 1 week, 5 days ago (2 weeks, 5 days after post)

mistydnbrow wrote:
dont post my previous message. It didnèt work after all.

lol ok… i think i’ll just stick to save and restart for now ^^

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