space typing apostrophe

Recently the keyboard on my macbook air has been acting out. Every time i press the spacebar, it automatically types an apostrophe, so that when i type a simple sentence, it looks like this: Yesterday Í ´went ´to ´the ´store ´to ´buy ´som ´green ápples

Needless to say, this is highly annoying. I had this problem a few months back, but it suddenly disappeared all by itself (no kidding), until it recently became a problem again.


I have tried:

resetting PRAM ánd SMC

disabling all the slow keys and mouse keys etc.

reinstalling Yosemite

disabling accent charachters

and so on and so on...

The keys all work fine when using an external keyboard.


All help will be highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Mads

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 4, 2015 3:26 PM

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Mar 6, 2015 7:11 AM in response to madskristiansen

Hello madskristiansen,


Anytime that you are experiencing keyboard weirdness, I would take a look at the article below and use the Keyboard Viewer to see what is typed when you hit the space bar. It should help you isolate and point you in the right direction of what is causing the issue.


One or more keys on the keyboard do not respond

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203162


Regards,

-Norm G.

Mar 7, 2015 3:00 PM in response to madskristiansen

Hey madskristiansen,


What you are seeing is a modifier key being pressed like the option key. Now if you are not touching that key then I would probably look into getting your MacBook Air looked at by contacting Apple Support. The link below will start you on setting that up.


Contact Apple Support

https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action


Take care,

-Norm G.

Mar 6, 2015 10:11 AM in response to norm123

Tried this already, but thank you for your response.


On the keyboard viewer, it appears as if the keyboard is remapped to press the apostrophe key and the space key at the same time. Weird.

Also, the apostrophe key and the one below (the key with ¨ and ^) is marked as orange on the keyboard viewer. Is it supposed to be like that? When I use the cursor on the keyboard viewer and press the space key, it gives me a space without this ´´´´´´´´ stuff happening...


Thanks again.

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