Hash sign/symbol on the Macbook

Fri, Jun 13, 2008

Hardware

Hash sign/symbol on the Macbook

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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7 Comments For This Post

  1. Charl' Says:

    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?,

    x

  2. David H Says:

    ############################

    function alt 3

    ############################

  3. mike harris Says:

    This would work for me if I had a Mac computer

  4. Chantal Says:

    Thanks, this really helped me, i had this same problem trying to write code, freaked me out.

  5. Louis Alexander Says:

    Function-Alt-3 works like a dream to get hash #
    Thanks to David H (above).

  6. donal## Says:

    works like a charm. cheers.

  7. Kenny Says:

    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.

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