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re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:29 am Posted by Matthew D. Healy (1255 messages posted) Try Control Panel/Regional and Language Options or type control intl.cpl into the Run Dialog box and set your location to be the UK. On Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:13 am, zax wrote: >heya, >how do i asign a key sequance or hotkey of F-x key to create the pound key? >recently moved to UK and love my old natural keyboard, but not much more use for >the dollar sign, can i swap the dollar sign with the pound sign ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:33 am 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 6:16 am Posted by zax (67 messages posted) IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE AND IT WOULD HELP ME USE THE POUND SIGN, BUT................ oops CAPS on... it doesnt answer the question. i know how to find the pound sign and i am aware of the slight differances between the keyboard layouts- i have been using it like that for a while now (thanks any way ;) ) however, what i want, is to to ONLY asign the £ sign to a hot key and leave every thing else intact. where if anywhere would i be able to assign diferent charecters to a key? I get my hardware at http://www.complete-computer-care.co.uk On Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:33 am, Paulina wrote: > >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? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 6:24 am Posted by zax (67 messages posted) that is simply not the case, this solution you are offering only tells the system what symbols, currency, date, etc.. to use, it has no relevance what so ever on the keys and keyboard layout. thanks anyway for the williness to help I get my hardware at http://www.complete-computer-care.co.uk On Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:29 am, Matthew D. Healy wrote: >Try Control Panel/Regional and Language Options >or type >control intl.cpl >into the Run Dialog box > >and set your location to be the UK. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 7:05 am Posted by Paulina (3264 messages posted) Well in that case - and your VERY definite requrement ;) Try this link to get the '95 mapping tool. http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wutoys/w95kerneltoy/default.asp According to a previous thread on the 2000 forum, this will also necesitate a disabling of the XP file checking whereby on boot-up, the altered keyboard file is restored to the 'correct' state. Create a text file, call it disable_caps.reg Following content: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00 Save it. Double-click it. Reboot. Supposedly this accomplishes what you require - but ................. Good luck! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 8:34 am Posted by Helen (1637 messages posted) You could always just try ALT 0163 to generate the GBP sign. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 9:19 am Posted by Gaby (9 messages posted) Just open WORD > open INSERT > click on SYMBOLS > Choose CURRENCY SYMBOLS > click on the POUND Sign > below click on Shortcut key > a window opens where you can assign (create)your own shortcutkey. Hope this is what you are asking for!!! I had the similar problems, because I am German using the Euro sign very often and my keyboard is american too. On Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:13 am, zax wrote: >heya, >how do i asign a key sequance or hotkey of F-x key to create the pound key? >recently moved to UK and love my old natural keyboard, but not much more use for >the dollar sign, can i swap the dollar sign with the pound sign ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: assigning a short cut key for the £(GBP) on an american keyboard Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 1:23 pm Posted by zax (67 messages posted) would that work globaly, or under office only ? I get my hardware at http://www.complete-computer-care.co.uk On Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 9:19 am, Gaby wrote: >Just open WORD > open INSERT > click on SYMBOLS > Choose CURRENCY SYMBOLS > click >on the POUND Sign > below click on Shortcut key > a window opens where you can assign >(create)your own shortcutkey. >Hope this is what you are asking for!!! >I had the similar problems, because I am German using the Euro sign very often and >my keyboard is american too. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum