Get rid of É, È or è weird symbols when I type a question mark or quotes on my keyboard

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Hi, my name is Doug and you are watching VisiHow. Today I am going to show you a problem that has happened to me several times and I have figured out how to solve the problem. It happens when I am typing a word like "Hello?" and instead a crazy E symbol will appear like this: "Helloè". This article will show you how to get rid of the weird E characters either temporarily or permanently depending on your preference.

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   There are two ways to turn this off. It is actually your alternate language settings for your keyboard in your control panel. The quick and easy way is to simply press and hold your Ctrl-SHIFT key. Now you can see my keyboard is working properly.

   

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   Look in the bottom right hand corner of my screen here it says "ENGLISH US".

   

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   When I press the Ctrl-SHIFT keys it changes to "English CMS" keyboard.

   

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   If you would like to get rid of this problem causing keyboard permanently, click on "ENGLISH CMS" in your status bar at the bottom.

   

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   Click on Language Preferences.

   

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   Now click on Options under "English (Canada)".

   

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   One way to solve the problem would be to remove this keyboard altogether, but what I am going to do is keep the keyboard but go under options. You can see that there are two input methods: "US" and "Canadian Multilingual Standard".

   

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   I can add other keyboards if I want but in our case we just want to remove the "Canadian Multilingual Standard" input method. So just click on Remove and hit Save.

   

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   Notice how the Keyboard Input Method changed to English.

   

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    Now when I press the Ctrl-SHIFT I can no longer change to the crazy keyboard with all those accented E symbols. Now that the keyboard has been removed this problem will never happen to me again.

    

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    I hope this has helped you out. Leave comments below if you would like. Thanks for watching VisiHow.

    

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I am typing a question mark but it is appearing as an e?

Question mark is not working appearing as an e. I have tried: I tried everything please help me

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   Click the Windows start button in the bottom-left corner.

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   Click "Control Panel" (Windows 7) or "Settings" (Windows 10).

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   Type "Region and Language" in the search field and click the found result.

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   Click "Keyboards and Languages".

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   Click "Change keyboards..."

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   If you do not see something like English (United States) or your local English keyboard, click "Add..."

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   Find your English language and expand it by clicking the plus.

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   Expand "Keyboard".

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   Check your regional preference and click "OK".

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    Click the "Advanced Key Settings" tab. You will see the key sequence used for switching languages.

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    (Optional) click "Change Key Sequence..." and select your key combination.

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Now, you can switch between keyboards by pressing the selected key combination.

I tried the Ctrl and shift but still got the E?

I tried to change the language in settings but still got the E!!! Why

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How do I get rid of this É when I try typing a question mark?

I already tried using Ctrl + shift. I have tried: Ctrl+shift. I think it was caused by: I don't know

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I've tried everything and not able to get quotation marks and I keep getting e with accent?

I've tried everything and not able to get quotation marks and I keep getting e with accent

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Getting rid of äccents with the á letter?

I cannot get the à to come up on my key bored without hitting number and then the letter comes up with numbers to chose from that have accents

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THANKS!!!! Very clear instructions which are helpful as I am a senior?

No details....just a thank you.

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Yo french accents problem question marks make É and quotes make ?

Wazzup dude I got french accents on my keyboard how to get rid of it please dude question marks go like É and quotes are like . How long to hold control shift I need that info man, please. I have tried: Press Ctrl shift and it doesn't work please please please help, man be a bro. I think it was caused by: Pressing Ctrl shift in a special way........ help bro

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Want to change quotes key back to quotes from èèèè?

Quotes key now types èèèèè how do I get it back to quotes and apostrophe

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How do I type a backslash? I am adding some more irrelevant information here also in the hopes that the question is now long enough to ask?

I was sold this absolutely horrible keyboard and can't type a backslash. I am doing forms online and need the backslash. I would love to get rid of this keyboard entirely also. Your article talks about question marks. That is not my problem. I cannot find a way to type a backslash, either on the question mark key or on the # symbol.

I have tried to go to the control panel and change the settings but my settings are not the same as the instructions.

All I want to do is type a backslash.

I have been online for close to an hour trying to type a backslash.

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It's only happening in Outlook and the control shift isn't helping?

 ? vs E with an accent. I am getting an accented E rather than a ? in Outlook when I am typing up emails. I can't find the US keyboard icon on the bottom of my screen and I am in Outlook not notebook. When I try the control shift it doesn't work. I opened Word and it seems fine.

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