Vista and the annoying French characters

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Owen Griffiths — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:32:29 GMT

Even Microsoft doesn't list this simple solution in its Vista forums. Instead, they blab on about the keyboard language settings in control panel. Blah, blah. I share the frustration that MS chose these to commonly used keys for the toggle. Duhhh.

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Jil — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:00:40 GMT

Thanks for the tip! The CTRL-SHIFT didn't work for me (on either side of the keyboard) so I just switched the language back to English U.S. and the issue in Outlook 2007 went away.

Note to all, it isn't just a Vista issue. I'm on Windows 2007 and it happened to me this afternoon (out of nowhere.)

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Clare — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:28:21 GMT

THANK YOU. This has saved me a lot of exit-rentering, rebooting time! :)

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

joanne — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:22:53 GMT

arggggg this isnt working for me i have an acer aspire one (and i bought it in Canada) its STILL not working ive tried every possible combo, its so frustrating and because im a student who needs to write essays and papers its extremely annoying please help

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Michel Daw — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:39:08 GMT

Thanks. Crazy that this is not better documented.

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

bg — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:34:21 GMT

Thanks!! This was one that not even our IT guys could solve.

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Kelly Armstrong — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:05:26 GMT

Add me to the list of relieved Canadians. Yet another undocumented "feature" of Vista. Thank god I can run ubuntu at home and avoid all this craziness ...

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Sam — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:19:10 GMT

Thank you for your brilliance.

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Krista Ritchie — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:53:51 GMT

This is not just a problem with Vista. I inherited an old laptop from someone else at work with XP on it and it functions the same. Drove me crazy but thanks to your posts, I was only mental for about 3 weeks!

re: Vista and the annoying French characters

Ahmed — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:16:41 GMT

Thank you so much. I happen to write in French and English. The accent's were always coming on at random. I used to copy and paste the letters into Word. It was a terrible pain. You have saved me loads of time.