Detecting ALTGR fails when ALTGR isn't there (Just Czech-ed out in Word 2007)

Some prior posts on this topic:

Now in that last post I talked about my MacBook Pro, what has managed to become (among other things) my favorite Vista machine.

I even have Office 2007 installed on it:

Now let's take a look at the Czech keyboard, in the base, shift, and AltGr states:

Of course we are going to focus on that AltGr shift state -- and we'll look at that bottom row:

• AltGr+X == #
• AltGr+C == &
• AltGr+V == @
• AltGr+B == {
• AltGr+N == }

If you test it on Notepad, everything works as you expect when you type the keystrokes sequentially, using CTRL+ALT since there is no ALTGR on this keyboard:

When you go to look at Word 2007

and type those same keystrokes, the results are not the same:

Essentially, CTRL+ALT+X works, and so does CTRL+ALT+B.

However, the other three keys re swallowed up by Word 2007, as follows:

• CTRL+ALT+C == © (U+00a9, a.k.a. COPYRIGHT SIGN)
• CTRL+ALT+V == <PASTE SPECIAL> -- since my clipboard was empty nothing happened as <PASTE SPECIAL> is not available -- but it did not fall back to the keyboard assignment
• CTRL+ALT+N == something odd happened to the page that I could not undo; I am not sure what this keystroke combination does in Word but it is not the end curly brace

I could not find the place for disabling the helpful shortcuts, though the fact that the two unassigned keystrokes work gives me some hope that it is possible to make the keyboard work properly (in prior versions some of them don't ever seem to work correctly?).

So if I ever get around to finishing that add-in (or convincing someone over there to do it!) then everything should work properly.

In the meantime, this seems like a fairly compelling scenario to me....

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