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Old 06-14-2017, 02:36 AM
amosch amosch is offline Word overrides special characters such as brackets with other functions. Windows 10 Word overrides special characters such as brackets with other functions. Office 2016
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Originally Posted by gmayor
The only things I can think of that may affect it are that you have automatic language detection selected in Word language options, or the font you are using does not have the glyphs in question.
I have checked, but the detection is turned off. The font is Calibri and even when switching to other fonts, like TNR, the problem persists.


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Originally Posted by eNGiNe
In case you have some unexpected keyboard shortcuts set up, have you tried the Alt+ nnnn numeric keypad options? there's a list of codes at http://www.theasciicode.com.ar

For [ you would hold down Alt and enter 0091 on the numeric keypad; for { it would be Alt + 0123. Works on my laptop, too, with Alt + Fn to access the numeric.
I have not as I don't have an actual Numpad and the combinations are not working with the numbers up top. Besides, I'd rather not remember every combination for a simple bracket.
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