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£ is the symbol for the british pound(:
The symbol for pound currency is: £
It should appear before any numbers. e.g. £5.00
The Pound Sign Is This £
The Pound Sign Is This £
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A possible explanation is that you are typing the pound sign in yourself. If the cell content is left aligned, then it is being treated like text and so it cannot be summed. That is what happens if you type the pound sign in yourself. It thinks it is text, not a number. You should only ever type in actual numbers and then use the formatting options to add in the pound sign or whatever other symbols you may want. So type the numbers in with no signs. They should align to the right of the cell. Then use formatting to apply the pound signs. The pound signs will appear but your values will still be treated as numbers and will still be right aligned. Now you should be able to sum them.
I have tried to type in the pound symbol for you but Answers.com won't allow it.
When you format the cell or range for currency, you can select the currency symbol you want to display. The default is $ if your computer setting is for US. In the currency formatting drop-down for symbol, just select the sign you want to display.
1000000 pounds, if it is currency, then put the 'pound symbol' in front. It looks kind of like an L.
£ or ₤
The pound symbol is £. Some currency conversions will sometimes refer to the currency as GBP (Great British Pound) or BPS (British Pound Sterling) or just Sterling. The pound symbol £ is based on the letter L from the Latin Libra and it is called a pound because originally the coins would have weighed one pound.