letters are in wrong place on keyboard

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Barbara_Thatcher
Oct 31, 2007
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When I enter text in Photoshop (CS2) some of the letters are misplaced, eg when I type ‘a’ it comes up as ‘q’ and vice versa. This happens whatever font I am using, and it has only just started happening. It only does it in Photoshop so I can get round it by typing the text in Word and cutting and pasting it, but I would appreciate any advice on what might be causing the problem. Is using System Restore my only option?

I’m using Windows XP, with 2Gb of RAM.
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Ed_Hannigan
Nov 1, 2007
Only in Photoshop? Is this a recent development? Did you reset Preferences as per the FAQs?
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Nov 1, 2007
If it persists after resetting your preferences, check to see what language the OS is set to. The easiest way to check this is to right-click on the task bar, select Toolbars > Language bar, and then in the right side of the task bar, to the left of the system tray/notification area, you will see a question mark (tooltip Help), to overlapping rectangles (tooltip Restore) and a triangle pointing down (tooltip Options). Click on the Options triangle and pick Settings. You should get a display like this:

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If you have languages other than English (US or GB/UK/whatever), remove them.

Clicking on the Restore overlapping-rectangles in the taskbar will remove the Language bar.

This should resolve the issue — assuming your copy of Photoshop is the English version. If it is another language, you will need to contact Adove to get the proper language version.
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Barbara_Thatcher
Nov 1, 2007
Thanks for those suggestions. I checked that I had English set on the language toolbar. I do have Spanish and French as alternatives but I didn’t want to remove them as I use them regularly. I was a bit unsure about resetting my preferences – there was nothing under Type preferences which looked to be the likely culprit and I didn’t want to change anything else in case I inadvertently changed something which suited me.

In the end I did use system restore and it did the trick – it seems to be the modern equivalent of thumping the top of the TV 🙂
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Phosphor
Nov 1, 2007
It sounds like your keyboard input got set to the AZERTY <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY> layout instead of the common QWERTY <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY> layout. (check the links)

How? I dunno. I don’t do Windows. And since I don’t know Windows guts, I don’t know how to tell you to fix it without doing the "TV Thump." But I’ve given you some clues…it might be a good idea for you to research this and find out how it works, and how to fix it without resorting to a system restore.
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Ronald Keller
Nov 1, 2007
There is a key combination in Photoshop (and Indesign) that also switches the keyboard language. Happened to me frequently in the past but I can’t remember what it was. Alt + some other keys. Anyway just delete the shortcut for switching the keyboard language:

Control Panel > Regional settings > Languages > Details > Keyboard Settings (guessing here because I have a Dutch Windows) > in the next screen delete or modify the switching between languages

Ronald
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Ed_Hannigan
Nov 1, 2007
Dutch Windows… Is that anything like Dutch doors?
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Ronald Keller
Nov 1, 2007
LOL

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