For Windows 11/10 on a US laptop keyboard, you have the following options: Press Windows+. to show the emoji panel, then find the £ symbol in there (may be on a different tab if you haven't used it recently) Switch your keyboard setting to ENG …

What's the quickest way to write the pound (£) sign on a US Keyboard? Currently I use Alt+0163 but it's not very quick because my laptop doesn't have a number pad so I need to set num lock on. Is...

Jul 26, 2012 · Just a thought. I hope your system is password protected. Choose passwords with care if for instance you use the recovery Console (advanced optional feature on XP but a life saver sometimes) make sure it has a password you can type from the keyboard, and take care with the characters use; maybe do not include a British Pound sign.

Aug 28, 2018 · On the US-International keyboard under Windows, if you have two Alt keys, the right one gets remapped to AltGr. If you don’t, using Ctrl+Alt provides the same functionality - that is, to enter ß, you would use AltGr+s, or Ctrl+Alt+s. For the pound-sterling sign £, one would type AltGr+Shift+4, or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+4.

Nov 24, 2019 · Regarding "Alt E , which works on European keyboards, maybe even British, but not US." - 1. Alt+e opens the active program's Edit menu in almost all situations. 2. there's no single "European keyboard" layout. 3. My Spanish keyboard has AltGr+e as the € symbol, and my UK keyboard has € on AltGr+4 –

Jan 14, 2012 · The GP pound symbol (as in Sterling currency) looks like this: £ which is produced by shift+3.....at least on my 2014 MacbookPro.... In that case you have a British keyboard, not a US keyboard (like the OP said he had). On a US keyboard, shift + 3 …

Aug 30, 2023 · That is, I enter the unicode macro ([option]-03c0) but no character appears. I can only create the symbol by switching back to the "U.S." keyboard, typing [option]-p, and then switching back to the "Unicode Hex Input" keyboard. I would like to be able to access that symbol with the "Unicode Hex Input" keyboard though. Is this possible?

Oct 21, 2010 · I'd like to be able to use a keyboard shortcut to type special characters (characters that can't be found on my keyboard) such as the £ (pound) symbol, which I can get on a keyboard with a number pad by typing Alt+0163. Unfortunately, on my netbook, I don't have a number pad.

Apr 6, 2023 · Although I live in the UK, due to circumstances beyond my control, I am now using a US keyboard, and have therefore set the keyboard layout to US in Windows 11. I don't want to faff around with the shortcut of "ALT key and type the number 0163" to obtain the £ symbol. Instead I just want to use something like Right Alt + 4 to obtain it.

Jan 15, 2014 · I cannot get a pound sign from the key board. All the help on message boards says Alt/Option plus 3 should work. Not for me it doesn't. I can't change it in system preferences. Please help. thank you . Paul Maguire