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British Pound sign - £ also known as GBP - Great Britain Pound, Pound Sterling

Do you always copy or cut paste £ sign?

Now, you will not have to do it again. Just remember this simple and useful shortcut. In notepad or text area, hold down the Alt key while you type 0163 from the numeric keypad (not the numbers given in one single row under function keys) and when you release the Alternate [alt] key you will get a £ sign wherever the cursor is at.

Some other Currency Symbols:

ALT+0163 = £ for British Pound Symbol

ALT+0128 = € for Euro Currency Symbol

ALT+0162 = ¢ for Cent sign

ALT+0156 = £ for Sterling Pound

ALT+0164 = ¤ for Currency symbol

ALT+0165 = ¥ for Yen Sign

Some other useful signs & symbols:

ALT+0153 = ™ for Trademark sign

ALT+0169 = © for Copyright sign

ALT+0174 = ® for Register sign

Note: Just make sure Num Lock key is on

Some Additional Signs and Symbols :-

Key code symbol Description
ALT + 189 ½ Half, 1/2 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 188 ¼ One forth, 1/4 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 190 ¾ 4-Mar Sign or Symbol

ALT + 177 ± Plus - minus, plusminus Sign or Symbol

ALT + 179 ³ 3-d degree, third degree Sign or Symbol

ALT + 178 ² Second degree, 2-nd Sign or Symbol

ALT + 185 ¹ First degree Sign or Symbol

ALT + 186 º Zero degree Sign or Symbol

ALT + 169 © Copyright, copy, C Sign or Symbol

ALT + 174 ® Registered, register Sign or Symbol

ALT + 153 ™ Trade mark, trade, TM Sign or Symbol

ALT + 216 Ø Not in, O, zero Sign or Symbol

ALT + 221 Ý Latin Y Sign or Symbol

ALT + 127 Δ Delta, difference Sign or Symbol

ALT + 7 • Middot, middle point Sign or Symbol

ALT + 208 Ð Big D, Lick, Big tongue Sign or Symbol

ALT + 222 Þ Lick, tongue Sign or Symbol

ALT + 30 ▲ Triangle up Sign or Symbol

ALT + 31 ▼ Triangle down Sign or Symbol

ALT + 16 ► Triangle right Sign or Symbol

ALT + 17 ◄ Triangle left Sign or Symbol

ALT + 1 ☺ White smiley face, smile Sign or Symbol

ALT + 2 ☻ Black smiley face, smile Sign or Symbol

ALT + 13 ♪ Music note 1 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 14 ♫ Music note 2 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 4 ♦ Diams, Lozenge card Sign or Symbol

ALT + 5 ♣ Shamrock, Clubs card Sign or Symbol

ALT + 12 ♀ Woman, female, Venus Sign or Symbol

ALT + 176 ° Degree sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 133 … Three dots Sign or Symbol

ALT + 131 ƒ Function Sign or Symbol

ALT + 134 † Cross sign, dagger Sign or Symbol

ALT + 135 ‡ Double dagger Sign or Symbol

ALT + 137 ‰ Permil, permile, per mile Sign or Symbol

ALT + 140 ΠCE sign, fish Sign or Symbol

ALT + 156 œ Small ce Sign or Symbol

ALT + 191 ¿ Upside-down question Sign or Symbol

ALT + 151 — Dash Sign or Symbol

ALT + 198 Æ Aelig big, AE sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 230 æ Small aelig, ae sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 163 £ Pound sign, GBP Sign or Symbol

ALT + 128 € Euro sign, EUR Sign or Symbol

ALT + 165 ¥ Yen sign, JPY Sign or Symbol

ALT + 162 ¢ Cent sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 215 × Middle X, x times, multiply Sign or Symbol

ALT + 21 § Section sign, paragraph Sign or Symbol

ALT + 15 ☼ Sun Sign or Symbol

ALT + 27 ← Left arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 26 → Right arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 29 ↔ Two sided left right arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 24 ↑ Up arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 25 ↓ Down arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 23 ↨ Up down double arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 3 ♥ Heart, valentine, card Sign or Symbol

ALT + 6 ♠ Spades card character Sign or Symbol

ALT + 11 ♂ Man, male, Mars Sign or Symbol

Regards,
Sanderson