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
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Jump to Post— DMR 152My 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.
Jump to Post— Catweazle 140You 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.
Jump to Post— Catweazle 140You 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.
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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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