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£ stands for British Pound. It's not there in the keyboard. You can use it by going to 'Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map'. Then in that double click the symbol and click on Copy. The past it anywhere in any text. You could be knowing that because you inserted the symbol in the question. In MS Word go to 'Insert > Symbol', then click on the £ symbol and click on Insert.

The Pound sign.

It is like the dollar sign, except it stands for the British Pound.

It isn't on the keyboard (outside of Europe anyway).

Try this: hold down ALT and type 156, then release ALT. It should put the pound sign in. Depends on what font you are using. Many it is ALT + 163, also.

More info at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sign

Hope that helps.

The £ symbol stands for the British Sterling pound. If you use windows, you can access it by holding the alt button and pressing the numbers 0163 in that order on your numpad. It is used to represent the British pound.

British pound sign?

it's not on my keyboard, but anyway, it's the symbol for pounds (British currency). it's like the dollar sign ($) but for people in England. i'm pretty sure.