Hash sign/symbol on the Macbook

Fri, Jun 13, 2008

I had to get a new notebook yesterday after spilling a cup of green tea on my Macbook pro. I’ve spilled some liquids on it before, but this time the keyboard and trackpad stopped working completely.

After using the Macbook for a few minutes, I realized that it doesn’t have a hash symbol, also known as the pound sign where my Macbook pro did indeed have it as Shift + 3.

I managed to figure out that in order to get a pound sign/hash symbol, you have to press Alt + 3

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3 Comments For This Post

Charl' Says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:31 am

hello, i have the apple macbook, and i cannot find the hash symbol?, it would normally be on the 2 but this has been replaced with @ so i don’t know where it is??, help?,

David H Says:
December 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am

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mike harris Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 2:25 am

This would work for me if I had a Mac computer

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