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I cant make a (£) pound symbol/sign in excel, instead all I get is a
hash (#).

So when I press: 'SHIFT' and '3' I am supposed to get '£' but instead I
get '#'.

Some other keys dont work although most of the other Shift functions do
what their supposed to e.g. I can still do a dollar sign ($), percentage
sign (%) etc. All keys work fine in other apps eg. notepad. Keyboard
setting is still the set to UK format.

Any ideas?--
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You could go to
Format=gt;Cells=gt;currency=gt;Symbols
Select the symbol you want--
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quot;davesexcelquot; gt; wrote
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gt; You could go to
gt; Format=gt;Cells=gt;currency=gt;Symbols
gt; Select the symbol you want
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Those are good short-term solutions, but my main problem is that my
keyboard settings seem to be messed up in Excel, and Excel only.

I am using a UK keyboard which would usually require you to press Shift
and number 3, located above the letters 'W' and 'E' on the keyboard (i.e
not on the numpad) to create a £ sign but this is not the case, instead
I get a hash (#) symbol.

Also I have noticed, that Shift and number 2, located above letters 'Q'
and 'W' on the keyboard (i.e not on the numpad) should give me some
inverted commas (quot;) but instead it give me an '@' symbol!

Anymore ideas on how to correct this?

Many thanks for the replies so far.--
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