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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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?,
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December 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am
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function alt 3
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May 27th, 2009 at 2:25 am
This would work for me if I had a Mac computer
November 6th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Thanks, this really helped me, i had this same problem trying to write code, freaked me out.
December 31st, 2010 at 6:52 am
Function-Alt-3 works like a dream to get hash #
Thanks to David H (above).
March 12th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
works like a charm. cheers.
June 27th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I tried all the above ideas and nothing worked, but I stumbled on this:
cmd + alt + 3 (but I HAD to use the alt key to the right of the spacebar – it didn’t work with the alt key to the left.
I’m on a MacBook Pro drom 2009.