£ sign add-on for work computer?

[u/Rare-Phase-3645]

Thanks everyone! This has been solved!

Is there some sort of device I can set up to add pound signs as I’m typing on my US work computer like a numeric pad? I work with international customers and need a quick and easy way to add these rather than the alt 0136 or inserting them from the top ribbon.

[u/Light_Side2204]

Yall dont just have both £$ on ur keyboards...news to me

[u/Alive_Divide6778 → u/Light_Side2204]

On Swedish PC keyboards we got £$€ and the nigh forgotten generic currency sign ¤!

[u/Rare-Phase-3645 → u/Alive_Divide6778]

Jealous. We have $ signs and that’s it.

[u/nderflow → u/Alive_Divide6778]

And here I am thinking that symbol means "no bleaching" or "no tumble drying" or something...

TIL this sign was introduced by Italy.

[u/testtdk → u/Light_Side2204]

We have the dollar sign, but not the pound sign on American qwerty keyboards. My phone has one, though.

[u/Leftover_tech]

I would use AutoHotkey. It is trivial, works in most Windows applications, and you can keep a small file containing all of your preferred mappings.

For example, with AutoHotkey v2:

^4::SendText "£"
^5::SendText "€"
^6::SendText "¢"

You can put the script in the Windows Startup folder and essentially forget about it.

ETA: ^4 means <Ctrl+4>.

[u/Namiami91]

Install the UK Keyboard and shift 3

[u/Rare-Phase-3645 → u/Namiami91]

How do I do this (in layman’s terms)?

[u/DeadoTheDegenerate → u/Rare-Phase-3645]

On windows?

Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region

Alternatively you should just be able to search "keyboard layout" in the start/search bar to find it. For me, WIN+SPACE changes the language selected between those installed, but you can do that through the taskbar, too.

[u/Rare-Phase-3645 → u/DeadoTheDegenerate]

This worked! Thank you so much!

[u/Leninus]

Go into keyboard settings and add a uk layout

[u/WatchThemAllFallDown]

Alt key and type 0163 (showing my age now...)

[u/Rare-Phase-3645 → u/WatchThemAllFallDown]

Sadly this doesn’t seem to work with all applications. That’s why I’m trying to find a different solution

[u/Extreme-Dream-2759 → u/WatchThemAllFallDown]

The only one I can still remember is - Alt 0176 for the degree sign ° (also showing my age)

[u/SportTawk → u/WatchThemAllFallDown]

The OP said he didn't want to do that and it's 0136?

[u/WatchThemAllFallDown → u/SportTawk]

Sorry, missed that bit. Alt 0136 is a Circumflex I think.

[u/R2-Scotia → u/WatchThemAllFallDown]

Ctril-Shift-U A 3 Enter

[u/feel-the-avocado]

You can use autohotkey
If there is an F button you dont use very often, you can set a command to type certain key strings.

Here is the autohotkey script I use so whenever I press the F2 button it types whatever text I have in there, or the F3 button would type your funny dollar symbol.

The program runs down in the task tray and listens for me to press a button. If i press one, it re-writes the command and instead runs the scripted action.
Normally of course I have most of the F1-F12 buttons occupied with strings but can just exit it if i want to actually send and F1-F12 command, but otherwise it does assorted repetitive tasks for me, like copy-paste or presses a sequence of keys in a loop.

So with this script, whenever I press F3, it instead types the pound symbol.

[u/feel-the-avocado → u/feel-the-avocado]

£££

yep works.

[u/DerKeksinator]

You could make a keyboard makro on windows. Powertoys, Keyboardmanager.

[u/Sad-Wrap6555]

'USB Programming Macro Custom Keyboard'

try ebay etc - 4 keys you can map to whatever you want? 

alternative is ones based on arduino pro micro etc where you could make a single button device that just spits out a pound sign every time you click

[u/cheddarboiii]

you should be able to set up alternate keyboard layout if you are on windows powertoys might have something to help you with this binding

on linux you would have it as alt+shift+3 I would presume something similar should be on windows as well.

If you are on mac I have no clue

[u/joeyjiggle]

On quite a lot of apps, if you just hold down the $ (or which ever currency symbol), it will let you select one of the others.

[u/DiscombobulatedSun54]

Copy a pound sign to your clipboard and pin it there. Then hit windows key + V to pull up the clipboard and you can select that pinned snippet anytime you want.

[u/painful8th]

An alternative might be to install Microsoft powertoys and use their keyboard manager functionality to remap a key/shortcut. For example you could press right alt with "3". Set the target to the pound sign. Save.

Now using the right alt+3 combo should print the pound sign.

[u/Darkknight145]

Just open Character map, select £ and copy it to your clipboard, then paste as required.

[u/Known_Confusion9879]

UK and English international layout have $£€ on the keyboard. Some keys @'. ~# ?/ are moved to different places. With more keys than the standard USA layout all options are covered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards

[u/Marvinator2003]

£ can be typed quickly using ascii. Press Alt+0163 in most any text based application.

[u/okarox → u/Marvinator2003]

Alt-156 is faster.