On my (US) keyboard, with NumLock turned on, typing 0163 on the numpad should enter it into a Word doc, and in some browsers it will work in places like the Reply box here. £

In HTML you can enter it as £ . £

The Unicode Value for the character is the hexadecimal number 00A3, which you can enter in HTML as £ . £

You should also (in HTML) be able to use the "character entity" £ to display it here. £

(Note that all of the above (except the Numpad method) codes end with a semicolon ";" that must be included.)

Keyboards "regionalized" for different parts of the world place various keys in different places, and the keyboard key should insert a proper character, but inserting infrequently used glyphs using the "Insert Symbol" utility in Word (and some other word processors) sometimes uses a "phony" character number (from a local machine character map) that gives inconsistent results in HTML and in publishing layout programs. (It appears that some Mac versions consistently insert a "phony symbol" with some shortcut that's fairly common, but since Mac users won't admit they're "a little different" it's hard to get them to discuss it.)

If you can figure out which "nationalized" keyboard you have, you can probably still search for "International keyboards" and find the Microsoft utility that shows the key layout for each of the 128+ different keyboards that are "standardized." You might get lucky and find that your keyboard has a key for it - possibly as a "Shift" or "Alt" key pair.

Since your Windows version (if that's what you use) is probably regionalized for the same area as your keyboard, your Word Help file may give you some additional clues, although Microsoft has apparently attempted to remove anything useful in later versions. A search on "Keyboard" (in Help) has worked in older versions.

John