A few days ago I transferred Office XP from my old computer to a new Dell
computer running Vista. I first transferred the program using PC Mover, but
that was not a complete success, so I unistalled it and then re-installed
from the original CD and then downloaded and installed all available updates.

Word seems to be working fine, except that for some reason after, I have
been working in it for a while it will for no apparent reason start
misinterpreting certain keystrokes. For example, {shift-3} produces a /
(slash) instead of an # and {shift-?} produces an É instead of the expected
question mark and pressing the same key without the shift produces a lower
case é instead of a /.

If I exit Word and restart, it works fine for a while before going silly.

The problem was originally limited to Word (i.e. when I started typing this
message keystrokes were having expected results, even though the same
keystrokes in Word were having the unexpected results).

Now that I have pasted the weird characters into this message, I am now
getting the same results when I press the keys -- É é instead of question
mark slash -- so whatever causes the problem seems to be transmissible by
cutting and pasting the characters from one application into another.  But
cutting and pasting the weird characters into an Outlook e-mail message did
not seem to have any effect on its recognition of keys.

Suggestions would be appreciated.