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In Snow Leopard I used to use ALT + cursors to move around spaces (not CMD - this was because I liked CMD + cursors for 'Home' and 'End').
Therefore I also used ALT + 1, ALT + 2 etc to jump to spaces. Therefore my ALT + 3 never gave the hash symbol, it jumped to space 3. It wasn't an ideal solution, but I didn't use the hash key much.
Now, Lion seems to have kept (some) of this preference. ALT+ left/right cursor still moved between desktops (spaces), but ALT + 3 did nothing (no hash, no space movement).
I'd like to restore ALT + 3 to do the hash but I'm not sure how. I've deleted com.apple.spaces.plist from my library after finding a similar question on here, and rebooted. It has removed the ALT + cursor functionality but not restored ALT + 3 to be the hash key.
To summarise, ALT + 3 now does nothing, and I'd like it to do what it should do. When I look and the keyboard viewer and press ALT, it shows the hash symbol on the '3' key, but when i press it nothing happens. Keys 1,2 and 4 don't work with ALT either (I previously had 4 spaces in SL, so i'm sure this is the cause).
Sorry for long explanation!
Thanks for your thoughts.
Chris

Maybe I should have said I'm in the UK. On UK keyboards SHIFT + 3 gives £, it's ALT + 3 for #, which is what I'm trying to get.

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