How can I type the characters printed in green colour on the keyboard of Acer aspire switch 10?

hgpuke

My (nordic) keyboard on my Acer Aspire Switch 10 has some characters printed in green. This includes the backslash-character which I need desperately. However, I cannot find any information in the manual or elsewhere on how to access (type) these characters. Please help!

hgpuke

I've now tried. Using the Fn-key would only type the characters printed in blue. The backslash was printed in green, as is the danish ae and 0-slash (ö). Explaining the problem to my wife, she wanted to give it a go. And to my surprise solved it in under one minute. I had missed that the backslash WAS ALSO printed in white on the same key as + and ? so to be able to type it, all I have to do is to hold the Alt-Gr key down while pressing this key. Stupid of me to don't see it the first time around.

 

Going back to the original question about the characters printed in Green, I have come to the conclusion that these are for "converting" the keyboard to a Danish country-specific layout by specifying that keyboard-layout in Windows settings. Similarly, there are some characters printed in Red. I assume these are for Norwegian.

 

This type of complexity is what you get when the manufacturers want to reduce the country-variants to as few as possible, I suppose.

 

So all is good and well here

 

For reference, I am attaching a pic of my keyboard

 

IronFly

Can you take a pic of your keyboard?

 

By the way, did you try the "Fn" key + the character you need?

hgpuke

Thanks for the tip, will try when I get back home from work.

If it doesn't work, I will e-mail a pic of the keyboard as you suggested.

hgpuke

I've now tried. Using the Fn-key would only type the characters printed in blue. The backslash was printed in green, as is the danish ae and 0-slash (ö). Explaining the problem to my wife, she wanted to give it a go. And to my surprise solved it in under one minute. I had missed that the backslash WAS ALSO printed in white on the same key as + and ? so to be able to type it, all I have to do is to hold the Alt-Gr key down while pressing this key. Stupid of me to don't see it the first time around.

 

Going back to the original question about the characters printed in Green, I have come to the conclusion that these are for "converting" the keyboard to a Danish country-specific layout by specifying that keyboard-layout in Windows settings. Similarly, there are some characters printed in Red. I assume these are for Norwegian.

 

This type of complexity is what you get when the manufacturers want to reduce the country-variants to as few as possible, I suppose.

 

So all is good and well here

 

For reference, I am attaching a pic of my keyboard

 

IronFly

Good that you find the solution.

 

 

Cory-Acer

Just to confirm, hgpuke is right on track. The green and red text is setup to be a reference if you're on a different keyboard layout than the original language. This is used in many countries where there are multiple common languages. In Canada, we use English as the default and provide a French alternative with the green layout. Here's an article to help with changing the keyboard layout on Windows 8.1.

 

http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/32047