pound sign on american keyboard?

Question

well my laptop keyboard style is american is there a way i could change it to u.k style like when you press the shift button and "2" and then the @ sign comes up.
its just i can find the pound sign anywhere so can you tell me which button it is or how to change the format?

thanks.

Answer 1

its also the number symbol on 3. Hit shift and 3 at the same time. I have an American laptop keyboard.... ###### and I can do it.

Answer 2

Keyboards around the world aren't the same! The English keyboard differs slightly from the American keyboard (QWERTY). For example, the English has a pound sign on top of the 3 (but it has the dollar sign). If you want to do a pound sign, you can either configure your computer to English QWERTY and type Shift-3, or you can go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map.

Answer 3

You can change the keyboard layout using the keyboard control panel applet (start - settings - control panel - keyboard - Input Locales) however this does not affect the layout used during logon (which is by default English (United States)). To change this perform the following:



1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)

2. Move to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload

3. Double click on 1 and change the number to your local layout (you could get this by looking at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload1). Click OK

4. You may also change HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\Locale to this value however it is not mandatory to do so.

5. Close the registry editor

6. Logoff and then on again



Make sure you select a country code that has been installed via the control panel or your system will not boot.



U.K. code is: 00000809



and the # is atop the 3, shift + 3 = # ;)

Answer 4

go into to word the insert than symbols , find the sign then right click or find another way to make a shortcut