My question mark and forward slash key have suddenly stopped working. have I pressed something to make this happen. Any ideas.

My question mark and forward slash key have suddenly stopped working. Have I pressed something I shouldn't have. Any ideas what to do.

judith147 wrote:
My question mark and forward slash key have suddenly stopped working.
If they do nothing at all, double check system preferences/speech and make sure they have not somehow gotten set as the trigger for Text to speech or speech recognition, etc.
Also try an external keyboard. If it works ok, then your internal keyboard is probably damaged and needs repair or replacement.

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