Changing keyboard symbols

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Wayne Mason

I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there, it has a
American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I have to use th
character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now I'm back i
England.
How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when I press it
Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the correct answer as a
American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout are differen
and that would mess up everything
 
£ ALT 0163


Just assign a key sequence macro to a key or just hold ALT
0163 (on the 10 key) £



message |
| I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there,
it has an
| American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I have
to use the
| character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now I'm
back in
| England.
| How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when I
press it?
| Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the correct
answer as an
| American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout
are different
| and that would mess up everything.
|
|
|
|
| --
| Wayne Mason
 
Wayne Mason said:
I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there, it has an
American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I have to use the
character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now I'm back in
England.
How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when I press it?
Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the correct answer as an
American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout are different
and that would mess up everything.
Click to expand...

In addition to Jim's answer:

- On-screen keyboard applet (in Accessories) can help.

- Lenovo has a great keyboard remap utility for Thinkpads,
it can do this (among other very useful functions)
Maybe your model has such utiity too.

Regards,
--PA
 
Pavel said:
:-

I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there, it has an
American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I have to use the
character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now I'm back in
England.
How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when I press it?
Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the correct answer a
an
American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout are different
and that would mess up everything.
-

In addition to Jim's answer:

- On-screen keyboard applet (in Accessories) can help.

- Lenovo has a great keyboard remap utility for Thinkpads,
it can do this (among other very useful functions)
Maybe your model has such utiity too.

Regards,
--PA
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Thanks for your help but I'm afraid you're being too vague as I simpl
don't have a clue how this answers my question. The on screen keyboar
just brings up an image of the keyboard I already have......the on
without '£' on it
 
Keyboards are "mapped" to send certain characters to the
display, but there are several hundred different characters,
you can see most on the "character map." You'll also notice
that on the character map window, there is a key stroke
means to display any ASCII character. If you have a
keyboard with 100 keys, you have a number pad and you use
the key code ALT key+ 0163 and when you let the ALT key
release, the £ is displayed. Many laptops do not have a
numeric pad, but the can use the keys in the keyboard to
simulate a numeric pad, see your laptop manual.


message |
| Pavel A. Wrote:
| > "Wayne Mason" wrote:-
| >
| > I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there,
it has an
| > American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I
have to use the
| > character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now
I'm back in
| > England.
| > How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when
I press it?
| > Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the
correct answer as
| > an
| > American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout
are different
| > and that would mess up everything.
| > -
| >
| > In addition to Jim's answer:
| >
| > - On-screen keyboard applet (in Accessories) can help.
| >
| > - Lenovo has a great keyboard remap utility for
Thinkpads,
| > it can do this (among other very useful functions)
| > Maybe your model has such utiity too.
| >
| > Regards,
| > --PA
|
| Thanks for your help but I'm afraid you're being too vague
as I simply
| don't have a clue how this answers my question. The on
screen keyboard
| just brings up an image of the keyboard I already
have......the one
| without '£' on it.
|
|
|
|
| --
| Wayne Mason
 
Jim said:
Keyboards are "mapped" to send certain characters to the
display, but there are several hundred different characters,
you can see most on the "character map." You'll also notice
that on the character map window, there is a key stroke
means to display any ASCII character. If you have a
keyboard with 100 keys, you have a number pad and you use
the key code ALT key+ 0163 and when you let the ALT key
release, the £ is displayed. Many laptops do not have a
numeric pad, but the can use the keys in the keyboard to
simulate a numeric pad, see your laptop manual.


"Wayne Mason" (e-mail address removed) wrote in
message |
| Pavel A. Wrote:
| "Wayne Mason" wrote:-
|
| I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there,
it has an
| American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I
have to use the
| character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now
I'm back in
| England.
| How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when
I press it?
| Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the
correct answer as
| an
| American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout
are different
| and that would mess up everything.
| -
|
| In addition to Jim's answer:
|
| - On-screen keyboard applet (in Accessories) can help.
|
| - Lenovo has a great keyboard remap utility for
Thinkpads,
| it can do this (among other very useful functions)
| Maybe your model has such utiity too.
|
| Regards,
| --PA
|
| Thanks for your help but I'm afraid you're being too vague
as I simply
| don't have a clue how this answers my question. The on
screen keyboard
| just brings up an image of the keyboard I already
have......the one
| without '£' on it.
|
|
|
|
| --
| Wayne Mason
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Hi there, Jim,
thanks for your time and thanks for your answers. My question has not
been answered at all and the only thing being done with any consistency
is to confuse me further. I'm beginning to think that my question has
been ignored.....how do I define a key to display '£'? because unless
it's being translated into other languages then it seems a straight
forward question that I still can't answer. As you've said, I have a
laptop and no numerical pad, so alt 0163 is about as much use as a
pocket on a sock to me because I can't use it.....it's also easier to
cut & paste the bloody symbol than mess around like that!
Thanks for your time taken but you've not helped
 
As far as I know, every laptop makers has a numerical keypad
that can be accessed by the use of a FN key. Since I don't
know the make and model of your computer, you'll have to
open your manual, or find the makers on-line manual to get
the procedure to activate the numerical embedded keypad
(this is not the same as the on-screen keys, but even that
can change). You'll either have to print the make and model
of your computer so somebody (other than me) can look up the
info you need or you'll have to open the book and read.

Once you find the manual, it should also have remapping
instructions or macro instructions... the you can use the
alt+0163 to display this. £




message |
| Jim Macklin Wrote:
| > Keyboards are "mapped" to send certain characters to the
| > display, but there are several hundred different
characters,
| > you can see most on the "character map." You'll also
notice
| > that on the character map window, there is a key stroke
| > means to display any ASCII character. If you have a
| > keyboard with 100 keys, you have a number pad and you
use
| > the key code ALT key+ 0163 and when you let the ALT key
| > release, the £ is displayed. Many laptops do not have a
| > numeric pad, but the can use the keys in the keyboard to
| > simulate a numeric pad, see your laptop manual.
| >
| >
| > "Wayne Mason" (e-mail address removed) wrote in
| > message | > |
| > | Pavel A. Wrote:
| > | "Wayne Mason" wrote:-
| > |
| > | I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived
there,
| > it has an
| > | American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I
| > have to use the
| > | character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now
| > I'm back in
| > | England.
| > | How can I make a key of my own choosing display £
when
| > I press it?
| > | Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the
| > correct answer as
| > | an
| > | American keyboard layout and an English keyboard
layout
| > are different
| > | and that would mess up everything.
| > | -
| > |
| > | In addition to Jim's answer:
| > |
| > | - On-screen keyboard applet (in Accessories) can
help.
| > |
| > | - Lenovo has a great keyboard remap utility for
| > Thinkpads,
| > | it can do this (among other very useful functions)
| > | Maybe your model has such utiity too.
| > |
| > | Regards,
| > | --PA
| > |
| > | Thanks for your help but I'm afraid you're being too
vague
| > as I simply
| > | don't have a clue how this answers my question. The on
| > screen keyboard
| > | just brings up an image of the keyboard I already
| > have......the one
| > | without '£' on it.
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | --
| > | Wayne Mason
|
| Hi there, Jim,
| thanks for your time and thanks for your answers. My
question has not
| been answered at all and the only thing being done with
any consistency
| is to confuse me further. I'm beginning to think that my
question has
| been ignored.....how do I define a key to display '£'?
because unless
| it's being translated into other languages then it seems a
straight
| forward question that I still can't answer. As you've
said, I have a
| laptop and no numerical pad, so alt 0163 is about as much
use as a
| pocket on a sock to me because I can't use it.....it's
also easier to
| cut & paste the bloody symbol than mess around like that!
| Thanks for your time taken but you've not helped
|
|
|
|
| --
| Wayne Mason
 
Wayne said:
I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there, it has an
American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I have to use the
character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now I'm back in
England.
How can I make a key of my own choosing display £ when I press it?
Telling me to adjust regional settings is not the correct answer as an
American keyboard layout and an English keyboard layout are different
and that would mess up everything.
Click to expand...
In MS Word, at least, you can get a £ symbol by typing
a3 followed by ALT+x (don't type the + of course). A3 is the hex
Unicode value for the £ symbol. This trick will work for any
symbol in the Character Map. The Unicode values can be found
by hovering the cursor over the character in the map.

This page

http://www.starr.net/is/type/intlchart.html

shows that you can make the £ sign generally available
by switching your keyboard layout to US International
English which gives you the £ symbol as an option on the 4/$ key
by using SHIFT+right ALT+4. This would have the advantage of
keeping your basic US keyboard layout. The link to Penn State
gives full instructions on installing the layout on XP but they
are not exactly what I saw in my XP Home laptop. Also it was
difficult to make the US International layout stick. This problem
can usually be solved by deleting all other layouts in Regional
and Language Options.
 
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