Hello Wendy, The Apple keyboard layout is different from Windows. The "@" sign is over the 2, and double-quotes is above the apostrophe. You can tell for sure whether your keyboard is British or not by doing Shift-3. If you get the pound sign, it's British.
Cheers, Anne On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Wendy wrote: > > Hi Ester, I've followed your instrucitons and all seems well. Let me > explain though, on my windows keyboard when i do a capital 2 it vies > me a > double quites sign and a capital apostrophe for the at sign, on the > apple > its the opposite way round and someone told me that the first way i > described is the american keyboard way although the apple seems to > be right > and the right boxes are checked from what i've done. So ithe the > Capital 2 > as the at sign and capital apostrophe as the double quote just a > standard > apple way for apple computer on whichever way you have the keyboard > set up. > > From Wendy. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Esther" <mori...@mac.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:08 AM > Subject: Re: keyboard layout > > >> >> Hi Wendy, >> >> Do you just want to change your keyboard layout from US to UK or your >> complete language localization? Also, do you want to be able to >> switch to a UK keyboard or make that your sole (default) keyboard? >> The difference between just using a UK keyboard (and not a UK >> localization) is that your spell checker and grammar checker (if you >> use them) will still use US English conventions. >> >> To add a UK input keyboard, go to the International Menu under System >> Preferences, navigate to the Input Menu tab, and check the box for >> your input language in the table. I'll use VO as a shortcut meaning >> press the VoiceOver Control and Option keys. VO-M means press >> Control, Option, and M keys, etc.: >> >> 1. VO-M to the menu bar Apple Menu >> 2. Arrow down and press "s y" to go to "System Preferences" and press >> enter >> 3. In the System Preferences window tab (or VO-Right Arrow) to the >> International menu and select it with VO-Space >> 4. VO-Right Arrow to the "Input Menu" tab and press it (VO-Space) >> 5. VO-Right Arrow to the table of keyboard inputs and interact (VO- >> Shift-Down arrow) >> 6. VO-Right Arrow to the second column, which lists the name of the >> selected keyboard; then VO-Down Arrow to "British". (The entries are >> alphabetic after Character entries for palette and Chinese/Japanese/ >> Korean inputs, and "British is a little more than 40 key presses >> down.) >> 7. VO-Left Arrow to the first check box column and us VO-Space to >> check the entry for "British" >> 8. Stop interacting with the table (VO-Shift Up Arrow) >> 9. VO-Right Arrow to the check box for "Show input menu in menu bar" >> and check it with VO-Space >> 10. Close the International preferences menu with Command-W >> 11. To select the British keyboard, press VO-M twice to navigate to >> the status menu bar. VO-Right Arrow to the Text Input menu, then >> arrow >> down to select "British" and press enter. >> >> HTH >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> On Jul 20, 2009, at 23:29, Wendy wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Can someone tell me how I change the keyboard layout from US to UK >>> please?> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> From Wendy. >>> >>> >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
