re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:33 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Paulina (3264 messages posted) If you change the Regional and Language settings to English UK, the £ will be there as Shift + 3 and the $ will stay as it is. Some key symbols will change - the most obvious being the \ character which then takes over the # from Shift + 3 and Shift + 2 which swaps characters with the old " key However to use \ on your keyboard, all you have to do is use the Left Shift + Aly keys which change between the keyboard languages on the fly. That's what I use in the same situation as yourself. Mapping standard keys may well run you into more problems both with current allocations and other applications. You will probably find that you make more use of the old $ than you think, with e-mail and international useage. Hope that all makes sense? Written in response to: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (zax: Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:13 am) Responses to this message: re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (zax: Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 6:16 am) All messages in this thread [show all] assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (zax: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 4:13 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (Matthew D. Healy: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 4:29 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (zax: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 6:24 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (Paulina: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 4:33 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (zax: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 6:16 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (Paulina: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 7:05 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (Helen: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 8:34 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (Gaby : Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 9:19 am) re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard (zax: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 1:23 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum