Shortcut button for £ sign on US keyboard.

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[ignore]Hi

I have a user with Sony Vaio Windows 7 laptop , with a Singapore keyboard . He needs to use the £ sign often, and wanted to know if there is a way I can assign the £ symbol to an F key or somehow add a button to the Windows 7 Toolbar , that when clicked will insert the £ symbol into current document.

Hope this make sense.

thanks
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[rclarke250]

If it has a programmable key on the keyboard, you might be able to set up a macro.

 

[linney]

[ignore]£ or € can be copied and pasted via the Character Map program[/ignore]

 

[linney]

[ignore]On my Keyboard, the Euro symbol can be accessed within Windows by using the Alt key+0128 and the Pound symbol by Alt + 0163. The numbers must be typed using the keys under the Num Lock part of the Keyboard not the top numbers on the main part of the Keyboard.


Alt + 156 = £ too

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html

£ or € can be copied and pasted via the Character Map program[/ignore]

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

A quicker way to get the € symbol is to hold down the "Alt Gr" key and press the number 4 key.

€asy ;-)



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[xwb]

[ignore]Unfortunately, ALT+numeric key sequence does not work on laptops without numeric keypads. If your laptop is one of those that is wide enough for a numeric keypad, then consider yourself lucky.

If you tell the system that it is a UK keyboard, then shift 3 will give you a £ sign and, as BRPS said altgr 4 will give you the € sign. The problem with this approach is that the @, ", `, \, |, # and ~ may possibly play musical chairs, so it is just pure guesswork to figure out where they have gone.[/ignore]

 

[xwb]

[ignore]For £ try, if you are on US International keyboard (you need to select this from regional settings), use shift AltGr 4.[/ignore]

 

[vacunita]

Many laptops withut num pads have a function key that turns part of the regular keyboard into the number pad.

In my case holding down fn key turns the:

7 8 9 0
u i o p
j k l ;
m . /

keys into the number pad keys:
7 8 9 *
4 5 6 -
1 2 3 +
0 . /

with which using the alt-gr key you can get the ascii characters.

so fn + alt-gr + ####

The character map in Windows is also a good tool.

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