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My 18 month old laptop has never hwd a £ sign and the @ was in the wrong place. Just worked out what was wrong and sorted it out as follows....
Windows XP.
control panel >
regional options >
under "pick a task" click "add other languages"
click "advanced"
select "alter language to English (UK)"
click OK
all finished
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Do you know what Roy.... my pound sign dosn't work on my laptop and my @ sign is where my speech marks are. I will follow your instructions and see if they work!
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Sharon, it should sort the problem. Let us know how you get on please.
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But what if you want to retain the English US keyboard. but just want to upot a pound sign in occasionally?
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Frank, you can go into the keyboard character map, ( start-accessories-system tools-charactermap) and select any of the symbols there press the copy button and it allows you to "paste" the symbol in the appropriate places.
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Thanks Noel.
Frank
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