On 11/08/07, Maggie Egresits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am in Canada and my keyboard driver is US/English --- > As explained I was okay with characters in OpenOffice Writer for a period > of time and > Then suddenly it switched over to the " mark !!!! > In all other software appl. It's okay -- @@@@@@@@ > I've tried your suggestion 'Alt & Shift' ---no change ! > I will give your advice further attention aft weekend --- > Thanks so much !! >
In Writer, go to Tools>Options>Language Settings>Languages and check the following near the top of the pane: 1. User Interface set to "Default" or to something correct for you - "English (USA)" probably. 2. Locale Setting ditto 3. Default language for documents set to English (USA). Note: there ought to be a check mark and a little blue "abc" against the name of the language. If not you'll need to download the appropriate dictionary for the spell checker to work; nothing to do with this problem but ... If any of the above is/are other than what it/they should be, change it/them and restart OpenOffice. Oh, if you have the Quickstarter running, stop it before changing any of those options. It may be fixed now but Quickstarter used to interfere with changing that sort of setting. Also in Writer, go to Tools>AutoCorrect>Replace and check the list to ensure there's nothing weird there to do with at-signs (@) and/or exclamation marks (!) Same comments about Quickstarter. Hope this helps. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
