Spanish, czech, non-english keyboard problem

Hi,
I need to type in Spanish and Czech. I have the system preference "International Settings" set with my 3 languages (US English, Czech, Czech Querty, Spanish).
Problem: I open MS Word. I define the language in the MS word doc as Czech or Spanish. Then I go the to language menu bar up on the top right and choose the right language. This works fine for inputting until I use "Tab" to move to a new field in the table and all of a sudden Mac OS X 10.4.10 has changed back to US. very very very annoying! Can anyone help?? This is a huge problem for me. Thanks. Im on macbook pro, intel.

Ernesto, I think you'll find that Command-option-6 will give you the \ that you want. For future reference, it's fairly easy to find what you need by using the Keyboard Viewer. How do you see that? The simplest way is to go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu tab. There, put a check mark into "Keyboard Viewer" and also into "Show input menu in menu bar" at the bottom of the pane. Now also put a check mark into "Spanish" in the scrollable list in the center.
At this point you should see a Spanish flag in your menu bar, no matter what application you're using. When you can't find a character you need to type, simply go to the flag, click and select Keyboard Viewer. By playing around with the shift, option, command and control keys (alone and in combination) you should be able to find what you need.
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