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Right Shift Key is Behaving Oddly - I Cannot Type a capital A without holding the Left Shift Key

I have an issue where my Right Shift Key does not produce a capital A when shift + A are pressed. All other capital letters are produced when pressing the Right Shift key, only the A key results in no input. I have activated the keyboard viewer and I can see both the Left & Right shift keys highlight when either the Left or Right shift key is pressed, but when the Right shift key and the A key are pressed, the A key is not highlighted and no output (niether upper or lowercase "aA" is produced).


If I press the Left shift key and the A key, an uppercase A is produced. I can also see that input highlighted on the keyboard viewer.


Is there any key combination that would disable Right/Shift + A?


I have also tried another keyboard and the same behavior is true with that keyboard.

Posted on Jul 19, 2022 9:58 AM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2022 1:28 PM

Thomas Montague wrote:

I have an issue where my Right Shift Key does not produce a capital A when shift + A

I have also tried another keyboard and the same behavior is true with that keyboard.


That is odd —


Try a Safeboot to test

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Jul 19, 2022 1:28 PM in response to Thomas Montague

Thomas Montague wrote:

I have an issue where my Right Shift Key does not produce a capital A when shift + A

I have also tried another keyboard and the same behavior is true with that keyboard.


That is odd —


Try a Safeboot to test

SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support


Right Shift Key is Behaving Oddly - I Cannot Type a capital A without holding the Left Shift Key

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