[Solved] Pound key has changed to a Hash key - WHY?

[robleyd]

I have open office on my laptop working OK. Running widows 7 Home edition.
Have installed it on my box computer and the pound key has changed to the hash key (#). Running open office 4.1.5 on widows 7 PRO.
Could this be the reason, Home is different to Pro.?
Tried 3 different key boards, all the same.
Checked the language is English UK.

[RoryOF]

Check that your keyboard layout is set to USA not UK in the O.S. (Windows?) control panel.

[Bill]

The pound key and hash key are the same key.If the pound @ key changed to the double quote key, then the keyboard layout may have been changed from English (UK) to English (US).

Switch between languages using the Language bar

Edit: It occurred to me that while the "pound key", the "number key" and the "hash key" are the same key on a US keyboard, the "pound key" is a different key on a UK keyboard. Nevertheless, the change is still probably caused by a change in the keyboard layout setting in Windows.

[Bill]

Pressing Alt+Shift will switch the keyboard layouts.

[davan]

Topic review: Pound key has changed to a Hash key - WHY?

After a long time trying to sort this out, the simple explanation solved the problem.
I found out that the key board seems to revert to US, and to get it into UK I had to be in the program,
( Open office ) and then; as was suggested click on the EN logo near to the clock and change it to UK.
Hay it works ! I spent several hours trying to sort this - Thanks to everyone who replied, all info has been noted for future use.