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I have somehow turned on the French keys on my laptop. This has happened before but I forget how to fix it. When I try to type a question mark I get a capital E with the accent mark over it. Please remind me how to fix this.

dgriffith343 Sep 01, 2011

I stumbled on the solution after an hour of fiddling around. am going to write it down and tape it to my computer cos it's soooo annoying when it happens.
just need to press the left ALT key and the right SHIFT key to get rid of the french keys from appearing on the screen as you type.

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French keys on laptop?...The only thing that I can think is the left hand [FN] key usually blue or green (colored key different then usually white key on black background) hold down and try one of the F# [Function key...F1,F2,F3,etc.,etc)

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