No, ALT 8, the number. It's an R Tec Smart Keyboard. I tried hitting the
same keys when the garble was first noticable...it didn't "undo" the damage.

I went into keyboard properties to see if, by some strange reason he did
something to the drivers..they are all current and there don't appear to be
any errors.

I'm at a total loss...I thought about uninstall, reinstall the keyboard...

I checked out the site you gave me...it wasn't much help, but thanks for
offering it up! I do appreciate the assistance you've offered!


"Jim Pickering" wrote:

Alt+Gr? European style keyboard? Try hitting the same combination again
and see if it fixes the problem. Also see if the info at this link helps
understand what it might be:

Microsoft Office Assistance: ALT GR keys:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...590631033.aspx

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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"momranger" wrote in message
...
My husband was told in an email to hit alt 8 while in the email (he uses
OE 6
on windows xp home edition sp2). Why did he do this? Who knows, but now
when he types anything on his computer, things get all jumbled and
jarbled.
Here are some examples of what happens:

type f and a semicolon gets inserted in front of the f

type g and an apostropy is inserted in front of the g

type an n and it inserts itself in front of the letter typed previously

type p and an r automatically inserts itself right after the p. When the
r
is typed, the p inserts itself in front of it. (sort of reminds me of
cell
phone predictive texting)

Anyway, this is very frustrating as it pretty much stops him from playing
on
his own computer and hogs mine. Can someone PLEASE help me? I checked
out
the character directory in programs/accessories but could not find
anything
related to alt8. I just know he did something really easy to fix, but for
the life of me I can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance for your help.