Producing the euro sign

As many of our international neighbours are now using the euro, it may be of concern to you to produce the symbol in Word or Excel, for example. So, a quick guide on the subject.

Three things have to be compliant for the euro character to be available:

	your operating system,
	your printer and
	your office software.

Your Operating System
Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 do not support the euro character. There is a free patch available for both of these operating systems at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp

Your Printer
Your printer must have fonts which support the euro character. Contact your printer manufacturer to get these updates. If you do not have this, your MS Office software will have to convert the euro symbol to a bitmap, and not all of the Office family can do this.

Your Office Software
MS Office 95 applications do not support single characters as bitmaps. So the whole document has to be printed as a bitmap if printer fonts are not updated.

MS Office 97: Word 97 will automatically send a character as a bitmap. Excel 97 needs a change in the registry to do so. The other applications behave like Office 95 applications

MS Office 2000 fully supports the euro symbol and also has the euro conversion function in Excel.

MS Office XP. Same as above, with the addition of extra gizmos.

Let's check whether you can produce the euro, then! Do you have a euro character on the keyboard? Usually it can be found on the '4' key. If so, hold down the [Alt Gr] key, found to the right of the space bar, and press the euro key. In Word or Excel, a euro symbol appears.

If you don't have this symbol on your keyboard, then try pressing and holding [Alt] whilst you type 0128 on the number pad. When you let go of the [Alt] key, the euro symbol should appear.

To display currency in Excel with the euro symbol, download the Excel 97 Euro toolbar button from http://download.microsoft.com/download/excel97win/patch/2/win98mexp/en-us/euro-xl8.exe. After the executable file downloads, run it. Open up Excel, go to Tools, Addins, and choose Euro Formatting from the list. A euro symbol button should appear on the toolbar.

Up and running? If not, please contact IPS for further help and support.

Producing the euro sign

Your Operating System Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 do not support the euro character. There is a free patch available for both of these operating systems at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp

Your Printer Your printer must have fonts which support the euro character. Contact your printer manufacturer to get these updates. If you do not have this, your MS Office software will have to convert the euro symbol to a bitmap, and not all of the Office family can do this.

Your Office Software MS Office 95 applications do not support single characters as bitmaps. So the whole document has to be printed as a bitmap if printer fonts are not updated.

Your Operating System
Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 do not support the euro character. There is a free patch available for both of these operating systems at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp

Your Printer
Your printer must have fonts which support the euro character. Contact your printer manufacturer to get these updates. If you do not have this, your MS Office software will have to convert the euro symbol to a bitmap, and not all of the Office family can do this.

Your Office Software
MS Office 95 applications do not support single characters as bitmaps. So the whole document has to be printed as a bitmap if printer fonts are not updated.