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[Cyberbog]

Hello. My laptop occasionally changes keyboards so that symbols such as `` come up instead of ' , etc. I am very familiar with key combinations to changes languages and I use several languages on my keyboard and can switch between them when I want to without any issues.

This problem, however, seems to occur by itself after I work on a Word document for a while and does not only happen when I press Alt + Shift or Control + Shift.

So I made an experiment. I figured that one of my most frequent activities when typing is that I copy and paste data from the internet or from other word documents. So perhaps the keyboard switching has something to do with the letter combinations Ctrl + V.

Indeed, after I copied and pasted a quotation about 15 times in to a word document (simply repeating Ctrl + V), suddenly the keyboard switched to French. I did it again a few times and it switched to another French/accent keyboard. I did it a few more times and it switched back to English. Does anyone know how I can stop this specific problem from recurring? I would appreciate any advice very much.

[HK53T]

check under Region & Language in Control Panel

Keyboard and Languages

Change keyboards

Advanced Key settings

look at key sequence to see if that is what changes languages

can also change it there

[Cyberbog]

Hello HK53T. I checked in Control Panel but the only letter combinations assigned to switch between languages and keyboard layout are Alt + Shift and Ctrl + Shift. There is no reason why Ctrl + V should cause any change. It seems to just happen randomly, every 20-30 minutes while I'm working. Thank you anyways.

[Cyberbog]

I also use Alt + Tab very often to switch between documents and/or other applications. Would you happen to know of any program I can use to track my keyboard movements for about half-an-hour? That might help me figure out exactly what happens. Perhaps when I press Ctrl + V to paste something and then quickly press shift to capitalize a letter it still activates the Ctrl + Shift function? Any other ideas you have would be much appreciated.