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I have an apple laptop and the keyboard is jumbling letters, e.g. Z is a Y and Y is a Z, also @ symbol cannot be found

  • wildlox Apr 22, 2009

    not as yet, still havnt sorted out the problem, any other suggestions?

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    have you gone into control panel then into properties ?? could be a wrong setting hope this helps regards Jim

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Your mac OSX is set to qwertz layout and keyboard is qwerty layout or around.

Look here how to fix that.

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