{"id":1290,"date":"2019-12-13T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2022-12-04T11:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T16:07:45","slug":"stop-keyboard-changing-language-accidentally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/stop-keyboard-changing-language-accidentally\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Keyboard Changing Language Accidentally"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re working on your computer, and suddenly, instead of a question mark, an E with an accent appears when you’re typing. How can you fix that problem? And how can you stop keyboard changing language accidentally?<\/p>\n

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No Question Mark<\/h3>\n

My keyboard shows English and French characters, as you can see in the screen shot below. My default language setting is for English, so if I press Shift, and tap that highlighted key, I usually get a question mark.<\/p>\n

\"keyboard<\/a><\/p>\n

However, my keyboard switches to French every now and then. After that happens, instead of getting a question mark (?<\/strong>), I get an E with an accent aigu (acute)<\/a> \u2013 \u00c9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Or, if I try to type a forward slash (\/<\/strong>) I get a lower case e with an accent \u2013 \u00e9<\/strong>. And Excel doesn’t dates in that format!<\/p>\n

Switch Back to English<\/h3>\n

To get back to English, I have to remember the key combination for switching the language setting. Of course, it’s never one of the first 20 key combinations that I try!<\/p>\n

Unless you’ve changed the default setting, this keyboard shortcut should switch the language in Windows:<\/p>\n