I apologise for posting this here but I don't know where to post it, and
there are lots of knowledgeable people out there. I have a problem with my
keyboard. When I want quotation marks nothing happens with one stroke. I have
to hit the key twice and then delete one. This happen with and without the
Shift key. Has anyone any ideas,

You do not have a keyoard problem. It is a feature of Excel.

If you enter a single quote in a cell followed by text or two single quotes
in a cell, the first single quote does not appear in the cell, only in the
formula bar.

The first single quote is a prefix character. It tells Excel that the
following data is Text (regardless of the cell's format).

That first single quote is not really part of the text string.
--
Gary''s Student - gsnu200821


"Barry Lennox" wrote:

I apologise for posting this here but I don't know where to post it, and
there are lots of knowledgeable people out there. I have a problem with my
keyboard. When I want quotation marks nothing happens with one stroke. I have
to hit the key twice and then delete one. This happen with and without the
Shift key. Has anyone any ideas,

"Gary''s Student"
Hi thanks for the suggestion but this happens in all applications,
word,thunderbird, even here.

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

You do not have a keyoard problem. It is a feature of Excel.

If you enter a single quote in a cell followed by text or two single quotes
in a cell, the first single quote does not appear in the cell, only in the
formula bar.

The first single quote is a prefix character. It tells Excel that the
following data is Text (regardless of the cell's format).

That first single quote is not really part of the text string.
--
Gary''s Student - gsnu200821


"Barry Lennox" wrote:

I apologise for posting this here but I don't know where to post it, and
there are lots of knowledgeable people out there. I have a problem with my
keyboard. When I want quotation marks nothing happens with one stroke. I have
to hit the key twice and then delete one. This happen with and without the
Shift key. Has anyone any ideas,