macbook pro backslash not working

[jim4545]

Hi, I'm having trouble with my backslash "\" button. It doesn't work! I click on it and it doesn't do anything but pipe does "|".
Can anyone help me work out why it doesn't work and how I can get it to work? I need the backslash for programming.

 

[ergdegdeg]

What keys exactly are you pressing? And what language keyboard do you have?

 

[DoFoT9]

could you possibly have changed the country settings?? this could change the keyboards layout and such.

try this:
1. system preferences
2. international
3. input menu (tab)

make sure everything looks normal, i have the "character palette" (the first option in my list) selected and my country's name selected. that should be all thats needed.

 

[jim4545]

The key I'm pressing is the one above the shift tab on the right left to the return button. The keyboard layout is English, United Kingdom. And I can't see anything in the international that would make it better.

 

[markman641]

Problem Found

I had just had the same problem.
But I finally found it out.

I was fumbling around trying to find the problem, so i went to my desktop, clicked something, and pressed "\" key by accident. Then I heard the bot speaking. So I'm like, "What?" And I do it again, and hear it again. So thats when i think "Ohhh! Let me go to my speech preference and see if i can fix it!" So I went there, and saw that somehow "\" got set to "Speak selected item"

Here is how you fix it if it speaks a item like me:

1) Go to System Preferences
2) Click "Speech"
3) Click "Text to Speech"
4) Find the thing that says "Speak Selected Text When Key Is Pressed"
5) Either:
1. Uncheck the box
2. Click "Set key" and change it.

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The Mac Man, The Markman!

 

[windstarfy]

Could be your keyboard settings. Try setting the keyboard layout to US. There are two types of keyboards, US layout and the general layout.

 

[jim4545]

markman641 - that was indeed the problem! and I did work it out a few months back, but forgot to update this forum page.
Thanks anyway