Lost the pound sign
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Oops, that should have been SHIFT+Number Row 3.
When I'm in UK keyboard format I get the pounds sterling symbol and if I'm in US keyboard mode I get the number/hashtag/pound sign symbol. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134 A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. ~ Richard Dehmel
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Chris Mullins
Hi It’s not a physical layout it’s a logical one. Try pressing the Windows key+spacebar repeatedly to cycle around the available keyboard mappings. NVDA will read out the different keyboard layouts you have available. These depend on which language packs you have installed on your machine.
Cheers
Chris
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Sakina
Sent: 18 July 2018 15:42 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign
Friend, For 7 years I have been using the same keyboard. It I am sure is not US keyboard. Since last night, it always did the proper action. When I just want letter 3 it gave and still gives letter 3 And used to with shift key give me # pound sign But now when I need pound sign instead it says number. Sakina Letter 3 by itself.
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From: Chris via Groups.Io
That’s odd, mine says pound sign as it should I guess you are using US keyboard layout rather than the UK keyboard
From: Ian Blackburn
When the computer says the word number in that situation it means the pound sign
Dear Gene and friends, Thank you for your help regarding adding new email address in my people app. I am sorry for I am not too clever and am still trying to figure it out. Sadly, I do not have many addresses and therefore would be happy doing it manually. For now I am cutting and pasting the address in the to field. Now today please I have lost my pound sign in my word document. I always used to press shift key and press number 3 for the pound sign. Now when I press shift key and number 3 it keeps saying number. I do not know what I must have pressed accidently on the key board as I am one hundred % user of keyboard and do not know what to do. I will greatly appreciate any help. Always thanking you all Sakina
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Gene
Don't try that combination unless you know what it
does. It may be a short cut command that changes a setting in Word you
won't know about until you print a document and it isn't formatted
correctly. Don't use alt anything combinations unless you know what they
do.
There are some combinations that are so standard
that you can assume that they do this or something similar. Alt f usually
opens the file menu. That is safe to try. But trying combinations
that are not standardized and you have no idea what they do, if anything, is a
bad idea. And it definitely won't do what you want since combinations like
that are commands, if they do anything.
It is possible you changed the language your
computer keyboard input is set to. There is a short cut for that
purpose. You may have pressed the short cut command without knowing
it. Someone will probably tell you the command if you don't know it.
You can try it and see what happens. I don't know it, I just know there is
one. I also believe that you will hear the language announced that you
have switched to and that you can keep pressing it until you get to the language
you want. I don't know this, but based on comments earlier in the thread,
it will probably say Brittish English or something similar when you get to the
one you want.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
From: Ralf Kefferpuetz
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign Give alt-shift a try…
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Sakina
Friend, For 7 years I have been using the same keyboard. It I am sure is not US keyboard. Since last night, it always did the proper action. When I just want letter 3 it gave and still gives letter 3 And used to with shift key give me # pound sign But now when I need pound sign instead it says number. Sakina Letter 3 by itself.
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Chris via
Groups.Io
That’s odd, mine says pound sign as it should I guess you are using US keyboard layout rather than the UK keyboard
From: Ian Blackburn
When the computer says the word number in that situation it means the pound sign
Dear Gene and friends, Thank you for your help regarding adding new email address in my people app. I am sorry for I am not too clever and am still trying to figure it out. Sadly, I do not have many addresses and therefore would be happy doing it manually. For now I am cutting and pasting the address in the to field. Now today please I have lost my pound sign in my word document. I always used to press shift key and press number 3 for the pound sign. Now when I press shift key and number 3 it keeps saying number. I do not know what I must have pressed accidently on the key board as I am one hundred % user of keyboard and do not know what to do. I will greatly appreciate any help. Always thanking you all Sakina
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Gene
It may be a change in Word, it may not. It
may be a change in the keyboard language input in Windows. Whatever the
case, the change almost certainly resulted in accidentally pressing a short cut
command and the question is, what shortcut command changes the language language
in Windows and what command changes the language Word is using.
It can be easily determined if the change is in the
keyboard input for Windows setting or the Word language. Open
Notepad. Press shift 3. What do you hear? If you hear what you
expect to hear, the change is in Word. If you still hear the wrong thing,
the change is in Windows.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign have system restore on and be able to go back to a couple of days ago, or is it off in 10 by default. Even then, I'm not sure it has any effect on the installed keyboard language. i have had issues in the past with word deciding to use American english templates for documents for no good reason which really fouls up the spell checker big time! Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Stone" <antony.stone@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign > It sounds like your computer has switched from thinking it has a UK > keyboard > layout (which has a pound sign on shift-3) to a US layout (which has a > hash > symbol on shift-3, and is often read as "number"). > > To confirm this, what do you get by pressing shift-2? > > A UK layout will give you double quote marks; a US layout will give you an > "at" sign. > > > Antony. > > On Wednesday 18 July 2018 at 16:18:29, Sakina wrote: > >> Dear Gene and friends, >> Thank you for your help regarding adding new email address in my people >> app. I am sorry for I am not too clever and am still trying to figure it >> out. Sadly, I do not have many addresses and therefore would be happy >> doing it manually. For now I am cutting and pasting the address in the to >> field. >> Now today please I have lost my pound sign in my word document. I always >> used to press shift key and press number 3 for the pound sign. Now when I >> press shift key and number 3 it keeps saying number. >> I do not know what I must have pressed accidently on the key board as I >> am one hundred % user of keyboard and do not know what to do. I will >> greatly appreciate any help. >> Always thanking you all >> Sakina > > -- > If you were ploughing a field, which would you rather use - two strong > oxen or > 1024 chickens? > > - Seymour Cray, pioneer of supercomputing > > Please reply to the > list; > please *don't* CC > me. > > > |
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Akbar S. Currim <raahzam@...>
Hi,
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On my Asus laptop I can switch between US layout to UK layout by pressing the windows key and space bar and vice versa. Maybe you could try this. Regards, Akbar On 7/18/18, Sakina <sakina.gable@...> wrote:
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Gene
I believe the person with this problem is using
Windows 7. Is that the command in Windows 7 or was it changed for Windows
10? I suspect the command in Windows 7 is something else. I don't
think that Windows 7 made much use of Windows key letter commands.
Gene ----- Original Message -----
On my Asus laptop I can switch between US layout to UK layout by pressing the windows key and space bar and vice versa. Maybe you could try this. Regards, Akbar On 7/18/18, Sakina <sakina.gable@...> wrote: > Friend, > For 7 years I have been using the same keyboard. It I am sure is not US > keyboard. > Since last night, it always did the proper action. > When I just want letter 3 it gave and still gives letter 3 > And used to with shift key give me # pound sign > But now when I need pound sign instead it says number. > Sakina > Letter 3 by itself. > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Chris via Groups.Io > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 3:33 PM > To: nvda@nvda.groups.io > Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign > > That’s odd, mine says pound sign as it should > I guess you are using US keyboard layout rather than the UK keyboard > > > From: Ian Blackburn > Sent: 18 July 2018 15:21 > To: nvda@nvda.groups.io > Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign > > When the computer says the word number in that situation it means the pound > sign > > > On 18 Jul 2018, at 10:18 pm, Sakina <sakina.gable@...> wrote: > Dear Gene and friends, > Thank you for your help regarding adding new email address in my people > app. > I am sorry for I am not too clever and am still trying to figure it out. > Sadly, I do not have many addresses and therefore would be happy doing it > manually. > For now I am cutting and pasting the address in the to field. > Now today please I have lost my pound sign in my word document. I always > used to press shift key and press number 3 for the pound sign. > Now when I press shift key and number 3 it keeps saying number. > I do not know what I must have pressed accidently on the key board as I am > one hundred % user of keyboard and do not know what to do. > I will greatly appreciate any help. > Always thanking you all > Sakina > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > > > > > > |
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Brian's Mail list account
Yes I know that, but that is not the issue here at all, In the UK hash was always number, but I've long since fixed that on. the point is that the machine has switched its keyboard to us English. Can somebody explain to me how to use windows space to fix it the? Has this always been there. I've never encountered it in many years, sounds very dangerous if true. I do know some screenreaders can change language using certain easy to hit keys, as \I'm always rescuing Dolphin users from all sorts of bizarre languages and synths!
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Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rui Fontes" <rui.fontes@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign ?The problem is that NVDA have changed how the symbol is named... |
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Brian's Mail list account
Not really, as I said earlier. its not the same.
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Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah k Alawami" <marrie12@...> To: "Nvda List" <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign Pound is number sign. So you did not lose it. On Jul 18, 2018, at 7:18 AM, Sakina <sakina.gable@...> wrote: |
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Brian's Mail list account
You are not wrong but you are wrong at the same time!
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See my previous post. The position of the symbols moves, so the shift 3 is actually a different symbol. I do not care what some odd people call it nvda has always got pound right. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Vogel" <britechguy@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Lost the pound sign On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote: Er, while you're not wrong that the pounds sterling sign is referred to as the pound sign, the symbol used at the start of a hashtag, often referred to as a number sign, is also referred to, and not infrequently, as the pound sign [programmers tend to do this a lot, as do people in telecommunications]. I do not believe the issue is with the pounds sterling symbol, but because the original poster was used to hearing # announced as "pound sign" and it's now being announced as "number." I also just tried changing my keyboard from English, US, to English UK (UK Keyboard) and it is making no difference whatsoever in how # is being pronounced (number) or £ is being pronounced (pounds sterling) while it does change what gets typed when SHIFT+Number Row 2 is pressed. -- Brian *-* Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1803, Build 17134 A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. ~ Richard Dehmel |
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