[Solved] Keyboard is French

[Bob MacDonald]

When using OO on my netbook, somehow the keyboard has switched to French and I can't find a way to switch it back to English

So when I key / an e accented comes up and when I key capital 6 a question mark comes up etc.

I have searched the options.


Bob MacDonald

[floris v]

That's a problem between OOo and Windows. In Windows, open the Control Panel, select Country Settings, Change keyboards, then in French (France) (I guess that you live in a francophone country) select the United States or United States (international) keyboard.

[Hagar Delest]

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[Bob MacDonald]

That's a problem between OOo and Windows. In Windows, open the Control Panel, select Country Settings, Change keyboards, then in French (France) (I guess that you live in a francophone country) select the United States or United States (international) keyboard.

OK - On Windows 7 it is in Control Panel - Region and Language, One must allow the language bar to be seen - then go into the document causing the problem and select the language from the language icon on the task bar.

This fixes the problem - and may also fix a similar issue I have with Chrome, but it doesn't explain why it happened. I have been using OO for a year and it has never given me this problem till now.

thanks
Bob