New to laptop keyboard.
I cannot work out how to operate the key board to bring up an apostrophe as used in for example -
she+s
My laptop is second hand so I have no manual.
regards,
FreeFolios.
Cyprus
FreeFolios 0 Newbie Poster
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
My laptop is second hand so I have no manual.
Um, yes- but neither do we... :mrgreen:
Care to at least tell us the make/model of laptop?
You don't see a ' symbol anywhere on the keyboard?? That's weird.
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
You may have software installed which is re-assigning the output of keypresses on your system. A list of the installed programs you see in 'Add/Remove Programs' (from Control Panel) might help us to identify what it is, if that is the case.
FreeFolios 0 Newbie Poster
Thank you for your input.
There is a key which I think is the one which is laid out as follows -
Right facing tag arrow head at top left------Full stop [period] at top right.
Full stop [period] at bottom left.
I suppose my question really is -
- which key combination should activate top right hand key indicators?
On my previous MacOs desktop I could call up various keyboard graphic layouts to find out what to do for each character.
kindest,
FreeFolios
Cyprus.
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Um, yes- but neither do we... :mrgreen:
Care to at least tell us the make/model of laptop?
You don't see a ' symbol anywhere on the keyboard?? That's weird.
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
You are definitely going to need to provide us with the make/model of your laptop, I'm afraid!
That all sounds very non-standard. Most keyboards have a key which doubles up for single and double quotes.
Killer_Typo 82 Master Poster
yeah it should be right next to semicolon(;) ie ' " see their on the same key!
umm have you tried making sure that you dont have numlock on, i know for some keyboard the keypad is integrated directly onto the keys. so the key would list two to three function. IE the key may have 0 ) and 9 all on one key.
also some laptops have buttons on them for accessing other keys. and last but not least, do you even see a picture for the key that should have ' printed on it? or are some of the keys rubbed out?
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
Ah, OK -that is a slightly different question.
Killer_Typo is right- to get to those characters, activating numlock should do you.
(By the way- The second "full stop" on the key you describe is actually a decimal point)
FreeFolios 0 Newbie Poster
yeah it should be right next to semicolon(;) ie ' " see their on the same key!
umm have you tried making sure that you dont have numlock on, i know for some keyboard the keypad is integrated directly onto the keys. so the key would list two to three function. IE the key may have 0 ) and 9 all on one key.
also some laptops have buttons on them for accessing other keys. and last but not least, do you even see a picture for the key that should have ' printed on it? or are some of the keys rubbed out?
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Killer-Typo
Many thanks. The key is next right to the semcolon.
I took this to be a comma as its symbol is placed in the lower left hand corner of the key - I try not to use commas!
My laptop's maufacture is -
Dual-tech
VIDAR 9900
- of which I have never heard!
Made in Taiwan.
kindest
FreeFolios
Cyprus.
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
Marking this topic solved.
FreeFolios 0 Newbie Poster
Re: Apostrophe - How to find the key location.
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Originally Posted by Killer_Typo
yeah it should be right next to semicolon( ie ' " see their on the same key!
umm have you tried making sure that you dont have numlock on, i know for some keyboard the keypad is integrated directly onto the keys. so the key would list two to three function. IE the key may have 0 ) and 9 all on one key.
also some laptops have buttons on them for accessing other keys. and last but not least, do you even see a picture for the key that should have ' printed on it? or are some of the keys rubbed out?
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Killer-Typo
Many thanks. The key is next right to the semcolon.
I took this to be a comma as its symbol is placed in the lower left hand corner of the key - I try not to use commas!
My laptop's maufacture is -
Dual-tech
VIDAR 9900
- of which I have never heard!
Made in Taiwan.
kindest
FreeFolios
Cyprus.
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