Keyboard problem: number + letter type together

recently while typing an email, my husband thinks he hit some bizarre combination of keys. since that time each time a letter from the top row is pressed, a number comes up with it. for example e comes up as e3 and i as i8. i tried cleaning keyboard as the problem exists when i try it on another mac. hope someone out there can figure this one out. keyboard is standard one that came with the imac.

Try restarting the computer in Safe Mode and see if this still happens. Safe Mode uses default settings and may help isolate this to software or hardware.
[Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393]
[What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X)|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392]
[Safe Boot takes longer than normal startup|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107394]
I don't recognize your issue but sometimes people accidentally access Universal Access features by pressing key combinations. You can also check the UA settings in the preferences panels if it is one of those.

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Tim

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