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Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« on: June 20, 2005, 06:43:32 PM »
Okay... I have a silly question. I have a laptop from the US. Can anyone tell me how to type the £ sign without changing my settings to UK? Right now I'm having to go to amazon.co.uk and copy the symbol every time I want to use it! lol

I know there are ways to create other symbols by using Alt keys with a sequence of other keys but I've looked online and can't figure this one out.

Anyone know?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2005, 06:48:56 PM »
No I dont think you can. I think you would have to change to UK mode.
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2005, 06:49:23 PM »
Alt 0163

£

 ;D
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2005, 06:50:08 PM »
Quote from: Britwife on June 20, 2005, 06:49:23 PM
Alt 0163

£

 ;D
LOL. Liz youre a genius!
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2005, 06:56:19 PM »
in word, it's: Insert, symbol and it's in the list
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2005, 07:03:39 PM »
Quote from: Britwife on June 20, 2005, 06:49:23 PM
Alt 0163

£

 ;D

That's what I was looking for! Thaaaaaaank you! lol
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2005, 07:04:16 PM »
You're welcome! I only know because we had US keyboards at my work.
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2005, 07:57:41 PM »
Remember, you can only do this if you have a separate number keypad.  It won't work with the numbers above the letters.  My US laptop doesn't have a separate number keypad, so I just copy it from elsewhere.

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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2005, 08:00:59 PM »
actually, it does. i'm on a laptop. it took me about 5 minutes of playing with it to figure it out. i had to turn on the number lock, which, for some reason, doesn't really work like a number lock. but if i have that turned on and then hold down function while doing Alt0163 then it works! Try it. :)
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2005, 08:42:44 PM »
Quote from: among_the_stars on June 20, 2005, 08:00:59 PM
actually, it does. i'm on a laptop. it took me about 5 minutes of playing with it to figure it out. i had to turn on the number lock, which, for some reason, doesn't really work like a number lock. but if i have that turned on and then hold down function while doing Alt0163 then it works! Try it. :)

You're right, it works.   :)  No more copying it from UK-based sites.

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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2005, 08:49:12 PM »
Ah ha!  I got it figured out too!  Thank you..  :)
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2005, 08:49:41 PM »
Quote from: among_the_stars on June 20, 2005, 08:00:59 PM
actually, it does. i'm on a laptop. it took me about 5 minutes of playing with it to figure it out. i had to turn on the number lock, which, for some reason, doesn't really work like a number lock. but if i have that turned on and then hold down function while doing Alt0163 then it works! Try it. :)

Duh - I can't get it to work.  I'm on a Dell laptop.  It makes me crazy that I can't use that symbol!!!

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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2005, 09:23:52 PM »
Quote from: lizaanne on June 20, 2005, 08:49:41 PM
Duh - I can't get it to work.  I'm on a Dell laptop.  It makes me crazy that I can't use that symbol!!!

~Liza

Liza, I'm on a Dell too. Let's see if we can figure yours out!
Try holding down Fn and hit the F11 key for the number lock. There should be a little light that comes on above your keyboard showing that the number lock is turned on. Once that's on, then hold down the Fn key and at the same time hold down the Alt key and type 0163 using your number pad.

Does that work?
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2005, 09:40:12 PM »
That's so weird, I have a Dell desktop and I can't get it to work either.  Everytime I hit the alt key I go to the menu at the top, it won't even recognize a key sequence.  I wonder if it's because I'm at work (do we have a guilty smiley?)
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Re: Typing the £ symbol on American keyboards
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2005, 09:43:57 PM »
mine does that too....it'll go up to "file" on my browser. but if i keep holding it down and finish the sequence it works. i dont know! lol
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