German keyboard but English appareance

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Juha - 28 Jul 2008 16:15 GMT

Hi

My client needs to have a laptop which has German keyboard. But they also
want that the XP Pro OEM and the Outlook 2007 are in English. They ordered
from DELL a XP Pro Ger OEM laptop and are now unhappy because everything is
in German(not the keyboard). Is there any way to have a laptop with German
keyboard and English XP Pro OEM and Office 2007 Pro OEM?

If not, they probably need to by another XP Pro OEM, English this time, and
I install that (and chooce German keyboard during setup). Quite stuppid since
I can't see any driver CD provided by DELL.

Is the easiest way to solve this in the future as followes:
- by XP Pro OEM English laptops
- by a GER keyboar spare part in the same time and replace it?

Thanks in advantage,

Juha

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Don Phillipson - 29 Jul 2008 00:38 GMT

> My client needs to have a laptop which has German keyboard. But they also
> want that the XP Pro OEM and the Outlook 2007 are in English. They ordered
> from DELL a XP Pro Ger OEM laptop and are now unhappy because everything is
> in German(not the keyboard). Is there any way to have a laptop with German
> keyboard and English XP Pro OEM and Office 2007 Pro OEM?

If the client ordered from Dell, he apparently failed to specify
his needs (for German keyboard layout and English OS and
applications.) Alternatives now:
1. Ask Dell to exchange the hardware. (I do not know whether
Dell sells a laptop with German keyboard layout.)
2. Remap the keyboard to German defaults using third-party
software. This leaves the keytops arranged for English, which
the user may find confusing.
3. Exchange the keytops. This is easy in a desktop keyboard
but I do not know if it is possible on a Dell laptop.

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Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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Juha - 29 Jul 2008 08:48 GMT

Thanks Don

It seems that I failed to describe the current system/situation

1. The keyboard is in German and that is good
2. The OS is in German and that is bad. Need to have English OS and
applications.
3. I installed Office 2007 OEM English but the most of it is in German
anyhow. Probably because the OS is in German.

Juha

> > My client needs to have a laptop which has German keyboard. But they also
> > want that the XP Pro OEM and the Outlook 2007 are in English. They ordered
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> 3. Exchange the keytops. This is easy in a desktop keyboard
> but I do not know if it is possible on a Dell laptop.

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