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ANSI characters are not functioning in TP 7.4 - Please help

Using TP 7.40, when editing today, I couldn't create extended ANSI characters for example: using the Alt+0151 on the Numpad which is the emdash — character, which always worked before. I tested this in Notepad and it works fine - just as it does in this post

Next, I got a message that my custom.bnd file is missing. So, I uninstalled everything and erased all traces of TP from Program Files and the Roaming Appdata completely, and reinstalled everything anew.

With the TP defaults untouched, the Alt+Numkey combinations worked immediately. Then, One by one, I recreated my preferences, which includes the following:

Changed folder paths to my data drive where I store the macros, syn, tcl, and custom spell files
Assigned keyboard shortcuts to the macros I use
Created 2 custom file extensions, both based on .txt but with different tab, background colors
Changed keystroke preference to Microsoft applications

And again, I lost the ability to type in ANSI or ASCII characters using the alt key and the numpad. I tried combinations of encoding, - always creating a new document to be sure that it's with the selected encoding, but this didn't make a difference. Document encoding combinations tried were: ANSI + PC, ANSI + UNIX, UTF-8 + PC, and UTF-8 + UNIX. Can anyone tell me what went wrong?

I use the Microsoft style key definitions and it seems that the custom.bnd gets corrupted after awhile. This "awhile" occurs after I assign the keyboard for my macros, but, I am not sure. Any guidance to track down the problem is much appreciated.

The problem is resolved. A cautionary tale of keyboard key assignments. It was caused by assigning macro keys to the Numpad 1,2,3,4.

My apologies for the unnecessary post.