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US keyboard setup-is there a pound sign?

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by lou.78

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hello is there a way to access a pound (?) sign on a keyboard that is setup for United States? Cannot change keyboard settings to UK as yet (disk needed)so need a temporary solution until i can get my OS disk back thankyou lou

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by donmars

Don't laugh, but how did you put that pound sign in your question? What if you copied it and it being in the clipboard, till you copy something else, you just paste it when you need it. Not very elegant but maybe get you by for now?

by lou.78

donmars i did laugh because i was nt using said system at that time i was using my friends PC to send the question thanks for the chuckle though!

by hinrgman

open your character map application ??

click on start, programs, accessories, system, tools, character map

go to ariel font (several fonts have it also) find the character you need and double click on it

it will appear in the character to copy box. ?

click on copy go back to your application that you need it in place the cursor in the desired spot and paste it there. ????

by peleke

DKlipert, that's a nice way to do it, but on my keyboard it's ALT+156 (?) ALT+163 give me (?). Thanks for the tip, although the Windows character map is perfectly fine for accomplishing the same thing, I prefer keyboard shortcuts to using the Windows character map.. much, much faster (but you need to develop a knack for it).. I'm still developing. :)

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