On 08/04/2006, at 9:00 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:
Dear WAMUGgers
I've got a little problem with my G4 PowerBook 15".
It has lost its *!*.
This may sound a little funny but it's true. The *!* that I'm using
for this email has been copied from a document and saved as a
TextEdit document entitled !doc, just for these situations!
Whenever I key shift + 1 to get the ! I get an Apple sound alert
and nothing else.
I can key in the 1, ¡, ⁄ (WAMUG list won't allow Rich Text to show
this character - opt+shift+1) , but NOT the !
Lorelei at AppleCentre Joondalup suggested switching keyboards.
That I have done with no change, so it doesn't seem like a faulty
keyboard.
She suggested it might be a keyboard shortcut/modifier in System
Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Shortcuts. I've never set any up but
went there anyway and reset them all to Default.
No change.
This is happening in all programs that I've tried, first noticed in
Mail; also in Word, TextEdit, AppleWorks, Command+Find.
I've recently upgraded to 10.4.6 and thought that might have been a
problem so I've reinstalled the Combo update and Verified
Permissions. No change.
I've also been playing around with Mail Fixer because I dislike the
tool bar icons in the latest renditions of Mail. I've disabled Mail
Fixer but still no change.
Have you any idea what the problem is? Your help would be appreciated.
Hopefully it's software based.
Regards
Reg
Hi Reg,
A couple of things you could try.
1.Check System Preferences > International. In the Input Menu check
only Australian is ticked.
Also check your Character Palate is set to Roman.
You might have to restart your PowerBook.
2.Have you got 'Speakable Items' on?
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25553>
"When Apple Speakable Items is on, one key on the keyboard may not
work if it's set as the Listening Key. This document applies to Mac
OS X 10.1 or later.
Your keyboard works fine, except for one key. If you change
keyboards, the same thing happens. If you log in using a different
account, the same keyboard responds OK.
The key that doesn't work may be set as the Speech Listening Key.
Follow these steps to choose a different key:
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Speech.
Click the Speech Recognition tab and then the Listening tab.
Click the Change Key button.
Press a different key to use, such as the Escape key (esc).
Click OK."
Cheers,
Ronni
Car'n The Pies
