Pound Sign

[nailit]

Ive got an American keyboard, can I get a pound sign on it rather than the $ sign? Bit of an Yabbie when I have to keep typing pound rather than just hitting the symbol.
Thank you.

[Jomlett]

If you can, Thanks to Milvus, It's because you have the US keyboard loaded. Go to settings/keyboard/input sources and choose British.

[Obiter]

If you have a number pad on the right of your keyboard, make sure the num lock is on the hold down the ALT key and type 156, then release the ALT key

[nailit]

Thanks guys, have got the settings set to British but still comes up $.
Dont have a number pad on lappy.

[Jomlett]

Mac or PC?

[nailit]

Jomlett, PC, Asus lappy running windows 7.

[Buenchico]

>>>have got the settings set to British but still comes up $

What keys are you pressing? Windows expects a British keyboard (which is what you've told it you've got) to have the £ sign at Shift+3. Perhaps you're pressing Shift+4 (which is where the $ sign is on a British keyboard)?

[nailit]

Buen, # nope, still no pound sign there. just #.

[Buenchico]

>>>Dont have a number pad on lappy

. . . but you've probably got a 'virtual' keypad. See if some of your lettered keys have numbers in blue (or possibly another colour) on them. If so, they're accessed by holding down the Fn key and work as a number pad.

So, if you hold down BOTH the Fn and Alt keys, then type 156 using the blue numbers, releasing the Fn & Alt keys should result in a £ sign appearing.

[nailit]

Buen, I held down the Fn key and the Alt key and typed 156 using the blue numbers and my screen went black. Had to restart 'puter....

[daveygh]

where is the $ sign on your keyboard?

[Obiter]

On shift+4

[nailit]

As orbitor said, shift +4

[daveygh]

on your laptop click on your start button and type character map in the search. open it up make sure advanced view is checked and find the pound sign click on it and press select. once it appears in the copy box press copy and you can then paste it in anything you are writing, obviously not a fast way of doing it but if you do this before any typing then you can right click and paste at anytime until you restart (or copy something else)

[Mick-the-Miller]

Add another keyboard in Settings-General-Keyboard-Keyboards the one you want is English(UK) which has the £ sign on it.

You can flip between the keyboards by using the World sign in the bottom left corner of the keyboard.

[Old_Geezer]

Copy and paste a £ sign here into a text file. Save it and always have it open to copy from. Or use charmap. Or best of all, get an English keyboard. As for what American key achieves it. Open a document and try every combination of shift alt whatever and see what gives you it. I predict some combo including one of the keys top left.