putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
Jan 11th 2010, 2:38 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
On a laptop, the numerical keypad is usually accessed via the Fn key. So you'd need to hold down Alt+Fn and type in the number code.
Last edited by helwardman; Jan 11th 2010 at 2:39 am. Reason: spelling
Jan 11th 2010, 2:52 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
On my dell the number pad is also located at jkl, uio, 789. So i press the blue FN key and hold it, then press alt and hold it and then J, I, O and it puts a £ symbol in.
Jan 11th 2010, 2:54 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
I've not tried, but this program called KeyTweak looks interesting:
http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
Seems you can remap any key you like. Might be worth a try? If using Vista or 7, make sure you run the program "As administrator".
http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
Seems you can remap any key you like. Might be worth a try? If using Vista or 7, make sure you run the program "As administrator".
No short cuts then lol.
Jan 11th 2010, 3:19 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
You could install the UK keyboard language thing and then switch your region to UK. That would enable Shift 3 to become the £ symbol (i think its on 3 in the UK keyboard - don't have one handy to check).
However that would enable your US keyboard to react like a UK one (but the printed letters would be in the wrong place on the keyboard
).
Goat..
However that would enable your US keyboard to react like a UK one (but the printed letters would be in the wrong place on the keyboard
).Goat..
Jan 11th 2010, 3:38 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
I use the US-International keyboard on my laptop. All I have to do is is hold down right alt+shift+4 on the number bar on the top £. Takes a second to do. I use it to punch in the accent marks in Spanish since I need a fast easy way to put them on so I would use that. It uses all the same keys on the US keyboard so the layout is not any different it just has a few dead keys as well like I press the apostraphe button and I can get either ' or é or if I want double quotes I can do " or ü even ñ with the tilde at the top left corner. It's switchable in the control panel
They make life so simple
Jan 11th 2010, 3:47 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
http://usefulshortcuts.com/downloads/ALT-Codes.pdf
▲↑ This is a handy A4 sized chart of all the ALT Codes ↑▲
I printed this off ages ago when I first had to find out how to type a £ symbol on a USA keyboard. It often comes in quite useful.
▲↑ This is a handy A4 sized chart of all the ALT Codes ↑▲
I printed this off ages ago when I first had to find out how to type a £ symbol on a USA keyboard. It often comes in quite useful.
Jan 11th 2010, 4:24 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
Jan 11th 2010, 4:31 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
You hold down shift, and then type the letters g, b and p, in that order.
Jan 11th 2010, 4:34 am
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Re: putting the sterling symbol on a US keyboard as a short cut?
hold down the alt and FN keys and type 156 using the keys the numbers are on the front edges off. That works on a Toshiba so I'm guessing it is a consistent thing.
