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Janice wrote on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:53:22 +0100:
J> "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.erols.com> wrote in
J> message news:utPb$f0qFHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
??>> Galen wrote on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:50:17 -0400:
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G>>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
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??>>>> My IBM laptop has a US keyboard but I'm using it in the
??>>>> UK. Is there any way I can get a £ sign on it with
??>>>> keyboard shortcuts or otherwise?
??>>>>
??>>>> Thanks
??>>>>
??>>>> Janice
??>>
G>>>
http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm
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G>>> Alt + 0163 = £
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G>>> Else just change to the UK keyboard in control panel >
G>>> regional and languages settings applet.
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G>>> Galen
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??>> I find the pound or number sign (#), above the 3, to be
??>> rather useless at the best of times even in the US. Could
??>> you perhaps use auto-correct to change it to ALT+0163 if
??>> you want the GBP sign in MS Word ?
??>>
??>> Incidentally, as received here, Galen's post read "Alt
??>> +0163 = #" and if, like me, you are a rather incomplete
??>> touch-typist, you might prefer not to change to a UK
??>> keyboard.
??>>
??>> James Silverton.
??>> Potomac, Maryland.
??>>
J> My touch typing skills are non-existant, much to the
J> annoyance of my mother who is a typist
So I just keep it
J> set to US keyboard even though some things are in the wrong
J> place.
J> So are you saying that if you use Alt 0163 then the £ will
J> be seen correctly elsewhere in the world whereas the £ sign
J> above the number 3 in a UK keyboard will not?
Honestly, I don't know but I think that might be true in MS Word
2002! What you see in e-mail depends a lot on the encoding you
are using. I am using US-ASCII but Latin 9 (ISO), Western
European (ISO), Western European (Windows) are also available to
me:- Tools/Options/Read/Fonts/Encoding in Outlook Express. For
e-mail, I would use ALT+0163 for the pound but for safety I use
GBP for the pound, EUR for the Euro and USD for the dollar when
I remember.
James Silverton,
Potomac, Maryland.