'@' symbol not working on new Laptop

Darren_NZ · 12-03-2007 06:13PM #1

Hi, I have just bought a new Acer notebook and found out pretty smartly that the @ symbol does not seem to be associated with the correct key on the keyboard

. Pressing 'shift' @ results in double quotes rather than @. Obviously this problem makes emailing a no-go.

The solution so far is to write the address in a word document and use the 'add symbol' function to drop in the @.

Can someone direct me to the right fix? I would be most appreciative.

thanks, Darren

aidan_walsh · 12-03-2007 06:15PM

Check your Regional and Locale options in the Control Panel, make sure they are not set to the US rather than Ireland or the UK.

Heinrich · 12-03-2007 06:19PM

Darren_NZ wrote:

Hi, I have just bought a new Acer notebook and found out pretty smartly that the @ symbol does not seem to be associated with the correct key on the keyboard . Pressing 'shift' @ results in double quotes rather than @. Obviously this problem makes emailing a no-go.

The solution so far is to write the address in a word document and use the 'add symbol' function to drop in the @.

Can someone direct me to the right fix? I would be most appreciative.

thanks, Darren

You have your keyb configured to American! There shoul d be a small icon EN on the bottom right of yoy screen. Click on that and see if English (Ireland) is mentioned. If it is click on it!

Otherwis Select Start - Settings - Control Panel - Regional and Language Settings. Click on the language panel and select English (Ireland)

BTW the sign is simply Shift + 2 on the US layout>

H3LLg0d · 12-03-2007 11:40PM

yes

and if it happens again

Darren_NZ · 13-03-2007 09:20AM

thanks everyone - will try it out tonight.

Much appreciated.

'@' symbol not working on new Laptop

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