Hi Chaps
Thanks for the replies, however my keyboard is still like it, it was actually set to English (USA) so I changed it to English (United Kingdom) and it still does it
please heeeelp, it's driving me nuts
Rgds
Dean
p.s. here is me typing my number keys with shift being held
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