Lol, I couldn't resist a quick try and......... it works!! Albeit uses the left Alt key (rather than the right), which I think I actually prefer. Found the right alt would be simply ">!".

Thank you! Maybe I'll just stick with this then. I have used AHK for other stuff before. Maybe I can make an exe out of it, and/or simply stick the ahk/exe in the startup folder.

I figured out the other missing keys too. For anyone who lives in the UK, but who has a US keyboard, this code should do the trick for the missing symbols: £ (Pound sign), ¬ (Negation or Not sign), ¦ (Broken Bar), and € (Euro sign).


EDITED: For even simpler syntax.

Docs here: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/howto/WriteHotkeys.htm

Although I live in the UK, due to circumstances beyond my control, I am now using a US keyboard, and have therefore set the keyboard layout to US in Windows 11.

I don't want to faff around with the shortcut of "ALT key and type the number 0163" to obtain the £ symbol. Instead I just want to use something like Right Alt + 4 to obtain it. Microsoft Powertoys allows you to remap keys. However, it doesn't seem to allow a £ symbol in the "Mapped to" section (unless one of the special VK "Virtual Key" codes might do the trick).

I've tried pretty much all the keyboard remapping tools shown here, but unfortunately, none of them allow you to remap to a key outside the current keyboard character space. Since the £ symbol doesn't exist in the US keyboard layout, they therefore don't allow you to map to that character.