Comments on: Type the British Pound Symbol in Mac OS X

By: eddie williams

eddie williams — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:05:31 +0000

None of the above suggestions worked on my wife’s Macbook Pro keyboard. She got euro, dollar, etc signs but no British pound. So she just wrote GBP…

By: Dude

Dude — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:27:19 +0000

You hit option 3

By: Ciara

Ciara — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:25:08 +0000

I take it all back, was confusing myself!!

Option or Alt+Shift+4 gives me: £ tadaaa!

Whereas Cmd+Shift+4 is obviously used for a screenshot….

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the solution!!!

By: Ciara

Ciara — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:21:34 +0000

That doesn’t work for me…

Option+Shift+4 is what I use to take a selective screenshot with my German keyboard.

Still can’t find the pound sign though

By: Jessamyn

Jessamyn — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:16:34 +0000

Well different version of Mac keyboards show different keys and ‘option’ is the newer version of Mac keyboard (mine shows ‘option’.) Which is why we are trying to keep up to date here. But ‘option’ and ‘alt’ are technically the same thing. Just keep that in mind and you’ll be all right.

By: Lola

Lola — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:38:42 +0000

Thanks for the tip! But what I’d really like is an updated version of the old KeyKaps program, which had a picture of a keyboard. The letters changed depending on the font you selected, then you could press modifiers (shift, alt, etc.) alone or in combinations, to see what you’d get. It doesn’t work in current OS—I don’t remember which OS it was written for. Does anyone know of something like that? (I don’t have time to search it out.)

By: PT

PT — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:36:39 +0000

I have tried all above. It didn’t work for me either. Then it work after change in language&text, tick British-pc instead of British. It works with shift+3

By: lan

lan — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:49:18 +0000

like Oktawson I can’t get any of the suggestions here working for me! help!

By: David

David — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:18:52 +0000

I found that ‘Shift 3′ works for me. E.G. Hold the Shift key down and then at the same time press the number 3.

By: Nicholas Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:58:12 +0000

Why on earth do you call it ‘option’ when on my keyboard it says ‘alt’ for the key that does that.

It is confusing and pointless.

By: David

David — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:02:52 +0000

@Sam, the “option” and “alt” key on Macbook Pro’s and newer Mac keyboards (I have a 2 iMacs, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and MacBook for my small business) are on the same key in the U.S. It’s interesting that it differs for you.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:29:36 +0000

Wow! Thanks for that. I’ve been looking for the £ symbol for ages on my MacBook with a Spanish keyboard and thanks to you I’ve found it. It’s just the same as the German layout. Woo hoo £££!

By: Oktawson

Oktawson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:06:47 +0000

I press Option(Alt) + Shift + R on my Mac and I get ‘£’ sign. Voila!

By: maxster94

maxster94 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:25:17 +0000

I got my mac from Thailand and I live in the UK, there was a Thai and American language setting already on there but the when i set it to British and i did the option+3 i only get a # and i’ve tried all the stuff suggested above but still i can’t get a pound sign Is there something i haven’t tried or do i have to switch between British and American to get the pound sign?

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:04:24 +0000

Vielen Dank. Habe lange danach gesucht.