How do I turn off the keyboard from automatically switching language layouts

Hi,

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With which application are you having this issue?

Do you use both the languages at the same time?

If you can see the keyboard icon on the status bar, right click it.

1).Click Settings.

2). In properties window,

3). Click Advanced key settings.

4). Click the Change key sequence button.

5). Select both not assigned buttons there.

If you are facing this issue in Word you might have to try the steps mentioned below.

1). On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Edit tab.

2). Uncheck the Auto-Keyboard switching check box.

I would also recommend you to post your query in Office forums if the issue is with office applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx

Let us know if this helps

Regards

Sreekanth.

I have this issue too, I created my own keyboard layout using MSKLC and assigned it to English (Australia) and I think that confuses Word. I'll have to try assigning to another language, but as far as i remember I couldn't ..

Search 'keyboard switching' in word help and it has the solution (file>options>advanced>editing options>automatically switch keyboard to match language of surrounding text).

Very frustrating isn't it..

I have two keyboard layouts installed: English US and Traditional Chinese CH. I have this excruciatingly annoying problem where the keyboard keeps switching back to CH when I am on English, which forces me to manually switch every time with Ctrl + Shift. How do I solve this problem? I've done all the research in the world and there are people with the same issue, but there is no solution.

I have Vista Home Premium. And I don't use Chinese keyboard. I depend on Input Method program, so I am not sure of your problem. However ......

Please click open the screenshot linkbelow.

If you click " EN ", do you see what the screenshot shown, the pop-up box ?

If yes, would click English stop auto-switching ?

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I don't think the problem is so much that it is "Automatically" switching, the problem is that Windows only sets the keyboard per program, so when you change the window, it switches to the keyboard that was set for that program. I haven't found any way to disable this or a "set for all" functionality. My default is locked (Work PC) so can't change that either.

I find this functionality incredibly infuriating and un-intuitive. I would like to know if there is a way to change this?

Thanks for your responses.

So this is example of what's going on. I'll have one window open in internet explorer on english, then I'll open an explorer window and it switches to chinese. Then if I click off the window it switches back to English. It's flaky... like sometimes some IE windows I click on are English and then sometimes it's Chinese (even though it has nothing to do with a Chinese website.)

I forgot to mention one detail that might help. I have a actual Chinese keyboard with Chinese lettering (along with alphabet lettering) Could this be the issue. Also, I actually have another Vista computer that's on a laptop and I installed both languages and I have to say I don't have issues with the languages auto-switching on me on my laptop. So maybe it has something to do with the keyboard?