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Pongo81

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December 4th, 2014 13:00

Keyboard giving wrong symbols

Hi all, hope someone can help...

This week I took delivery of an Inspiron 7000 laptop for my daughter, and some of the keyboard symbols are typing incorrectly.   EG when hitting the " key she get the @ symbol, the @ symbol is giving the british pound symbol, and maybe one or two others are incorrect (I am at work at present and don't have the laptop with me to give all the wrong keys).

I set up the keyboard as English (UK) I think...

We are locaated in Australia

Hope someone can help before I contact Dell support direct

Cheers for now,

Marty

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Dell-Farooq A

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December 4th, 2014 15:00

Hi Marty,

The keyboard layout would have changed on your computer. Please follow the steps mentioned below to change it on your Windows 8 computer.

  1. The first thing we need to do is launch the Control Panel, you can do this by pressing the Win + R keyboard combination and type in ‘Control Panel’ and click on ‘OK’.
  2. Switch to the small icons view by selecting the drop down from the top right corner.
  3. Select the Language option.
  4. On the right-hand side you will see an ‘options’ hyperlink, click on it.
  5. ON the next screen you will be able to add and remove keyboard layouts.
  6. So add ‘US’ country under the ‘Input method’ section.

If you have Windows 7 or older operating system, please follow the steps mentioned from the link below.

http://bit.ly/1jlT5db

Please let me know if this helps.

Pongo81

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December 6th, 2014 03:00

Thank you that seems to have worked..

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