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Where is the # (hash) key on a British Mac keyboard? Print E-mail
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Written by Dan Bishop   
Sunday, 15 July 2007 07:12
Hash KeyI've just returned from a 2 week holiday in Florida with my Family and in 8 days time I will be setting off on another Holiday, touring Europe with my Friends. In the meantime, I decided that once and for all, I would put my mind to rest and work out how on Earth one is supposed to type a # on a MacBook with a British keyboard layout. Standard British keyboards have their own # key with a ... oh ok and in typing this I have just discovered another symbol I don't know how to type on a British Mac keyboard (a tilde)... Ah there it is! The tilde does have a key of its own, located just to the left of the "z" key... oops

Anyway, the usual # key on a British keyboard is located just to the left of the carriage return key and to the right of the @ key. There is however, no # symbol present anywhere on a British Mac keyboard. The solution it turns out is to press alt+3 :)

The # symbol is located above the 3 (i.e. shift+3) on a U.S. keyboard, both standard and Mac I believe.
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