I have been trying to find out what keys are different on the European keyboard when compared to the keyboards in the United State. I remember two of them being different that get used a lot. Does someone know what keys are different or have a link to this information?

Foot Notes

Wikipedia has a good page with an overview of all keyboards. I found France to be the most difficult since it is based on AZERTY versus QWERTY. The other thing to find out is how to access the @ key. That varies between most of the keyboard and often uses the 'right alt key' or 'ALT GR" to access. After than, then it is where to find apostrophe, semicolons and colons.

Does this help?

Thank you, Marta. This is great information and much needed (by me, anyway)

Nancy

Marta,

Thank you for the information. It is a big help. I just can't remember them when I don't use them for 2 years.

Foot Notes

Great! I'd also note where the period and comma are located. My most recent experience was in France and the keyboard is very different.

Another useful 'geeky' technique is to memorize the special ascii way to enter special characters. The tip is to use the 10-key pad and their Ascii code. It has to be a three digit code so for special characters under 100, put a 0 (zero) in front.

@ = hold down the left alt key and type 064 on the 10-key pad.

$ = hold down left alt key and type 036 on 10-key pad

' = hold down left alt key and type 039 on the 10-key pad.

Okay... enough geekiness for this weekend.