Barry, to cycle between keyboard layouts you need to press Alt Shift. In your case hopefully between UK and US keyboard layouts. Now, without going into too much details, this may or may not work depends on your dads laptop settings but it definitely worth a try. If UK keyboard isn’t set up on the laptop nothing will happen. Worst case scenario, your dad will just have to keep pressing Alt Shift until he is back on the US keyboard layout.
Just an observation, I thought with the US keyboard layout you’d get a quotation mark rather than a colon when you press the apostrophe key.
HTH Amro-----Original Message----- From: Barry Hill
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 7:38 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Colon instead of @ symbol For two reasons. The first is that his laptop doesn't have speech on it. The other is that my dad lives away from me and he isn't very computer savvy and gets confused quite easily. He knows how to search the internet and transfer photo's, but that's about it. Still, he must know something more as he needs his email address for something, hence the @ key. I'll be visiting him at the weekend and it would be useful to know what I'm doing to explain properly to him when I'm there. Cheers Barry -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dudleym@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 7:40 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Colon instead of @ symbol Why not go into the settings and have a look? Barry Hill recently said:-
Hi all On my dad's laptop, when he hits the @ key it types a colon. Is it, as I suspect, that it has been set to the US keyboard and just needs to be changed over to the UK one? Cheers Barry ---------- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. <http://www.avast.com/>www.avast.com
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