This sounds like you changed your keyboard. Perhaps U.S. (International).

The apostrophe will appear if you follow the apostrophe by a consonant. But if you follow it by a vowel, it will give you the accented character instead.

In Windows 2000, you have to check "input locales" in the keyboard properties.

Note that if you have more than one keyboard (or input locale?) defined, you can switch between them with Alt-Shift. However, the setting is specific for each individual program - it is not system-wide.

BTW, US-International is great if you need to type foreign characters.

HTH,

Hilmar.

>A few days ago I started having problems with apostrophe key as following:
>1. when I type this key, the cursor does not move forward and I have to press space bar to show me that I actually typed this key.
>2. sometimes instead of apostrophe it types a foreign letter with accent (like u with two dots above it).
>3. the same happens when I press Shift-Apostrophe.
>
>My keyboard it set to English (United States).
>
>Any suggestions what could be done to fix this problem?
>
>Thank you.