Exclamation Point not working

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Exclamation Point not working

For about a week now, the exclamation mark on my keyboard has not been working, yet the 1 will work; so I know it's not the key itself that is the problem.

And as simple as it may seem, yes, I have tried using the shift+1 key to get the exclamation mark, but it only shows the shift going into effect on to my computer (can push it once for capital letter, twice for all caps without continuing to hold it down, three times to turn it back off.) The shift key works with any other key on the keyboard except for the 1. Can anyone help me with this?

PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.9), 1 GB DDR SDRAM

Posted on Feb 19, 2006 3:23 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Feb 19, 2006 6:41 PM in response to Ashlee Lund

Check system prefs/speech/speech recognition/ to make sure this is not turned on with ! chosen as the Listening Key.

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Answer 2

Ashlee Lund Author

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Feb 20, 2006 7:34 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Check system prefs/speech/speech recognition/ to make
sure this is not turned on with ! chosen as the
Listening Key.

The listening key was set as the ESC. key and I changed it to Shift+F5 just to make sure that wasn't the problem. I am still not getting the exclamation mark, so if anyone can help, that would be great. Thanks>

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Answer 3

Tom Gewecke

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Feb 20, 2006 7:55 PM in response to Ashlee Lund

Double check system prefs/international/input menu and make sure that only the box for US is checked and no others.

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Answer 4

Ashlee Lund Author

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Feb 22, 2006 9:54 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Only the U.S. is selected on the International Options.

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Answer 5

Apr 27, 2006 7:48 AM in response to Ashlee Lund

Ok...This is weird. I ran across the exact same problem. My number 1 key would work but not my exclamation point key. After checking speech settings on the machine I was woking on, I noticed that speech recognition had been turned on. I still don't understand how speech recognition could have caused the problem but this is how I solved it. I went through user>USERNAME>library>preferences and deleted all speech related .plist files an that fixed the problem. Hope this helps!

Cheers from Mexico....

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