Euro Symbol

Corko

How can people get the euro symbol up on word & excel documents?
Dreadful Symbol really.

jbkenn

If you have a Euro keyboard € on the 4 on the top numeric row and you are using Win98/2k/Me/Xp, hold down Alt Gr key (on the right of the space bar) and press 4 If you are using Win 95 you can download the update from Micro$oft

jbkenn

Snowbat

... and make sure you have configured an Irish (or British) layout in Control Panel/Keyboard.

You don't necessarily need a keyboard that has € symbol on the 4 key - mine doesn't and ALTGR-4 works.

Xterminator

Above information ismonly partly right.

Because some keyboards dont have an alt gr key, the offical MS way to display the euro is -:

Ensure numlock is active
Hold down the Alt key
Press 0128
Release the ALT key

Bobs ur uncle.

Remember some fonts are not euro compliant, so best to stick to standard ones if ur having difficulty.

X

GoneShootin

CORKO, what operating system are we talking about ?

i was called into a butchers in town to get their Widows95 pc euro symbol compliant

deaded to www.microsoft.com, did a search, found correct file for op system, downloaded, install, restart, and there ya go, euroific

Lograce

Try ctrl+alt+e

Sorted!!!:

Man U 0 Chelsea 3

daveirl

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seamus

With the deadline less than 1 month away now, and loads of ppl who are gonna pose this question in the coming weeks, maybe we should put a sticky at the top of the forum with the most common ways of doing it and/or fixes hey MODS!!!:D

GoneShootin

NOOOO !!

i wana make some money of this, offering a EURO COMPLIANT UPGRADE PACKAGE to all over cork

muhahahaha

strat

L€€T

btw this isnt a rubish post i wasent expecting my symbols to work as usually i can only see ikkle box's

i recomend the Xterminator method as none of the rest worked on this old, unupdated ver of Win 95


l€€t

Kali

although I'm sure the vast majority of boards users know how to display the euro symbol, i've stickyfied this thread anyway just in case.

daveirl

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jaarius

Originally posted by Gone Shootin
NOOOO !!

i wana make some money of this, offering a EURO COMPLIANT UPGRADE PACKAGE to all over cork

muhahahaha

can i get in on some of that action? mmm con folk out of money in cork:]

jaz?

GoneShootin

well when theres a scam to be had ill be there

i just sent in my advert to the local news rag, some xmas dosh

Bard

The simple answer to how to display the Euro is:

If you have an ALT-GR key (usually next to the spacebar, on the right), press ALT-GR+4.

If you don't have an ALT-GR key, press CTRL+ALT+4.

If you don't have a CTRL key or an ALT-GR key (what???) or you're just stuck in the past, turn on NUM-LOCK and press ALT-0128.

If you don't have a CTRL key, an ALT key OR an ALT-GR key, BUY A NEW KEYBOARD or copy and paste this: €

If you're still using Windows95 (WHY???) and you haven't updated it with the Euro fonts update, update it now.

While you're at it, you might as well update it for the Y2K bug.

To do conversions between all the Euro currencies and the € (Euro) itself, you could use a utility like Currency Converter Pro, written by yours truly.

For more information on the Euro, to get the Euro currency screensaver, training pack, font, and a fearsome ROTATING ANIMATED GIF OF A EURO COIN!!!, see the ECBI (Euro Changeover Board of Ireland) web site at http://www.gov.ie/ecbi-euro/ .

Next!!!...

Lenny

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strat

lol Bard i cant see ANY of the euro symbols in YOUR post smarty pants the only one i can get it to display on this machine - (win 95 and im in work so no updates here ) the only method i can get it to appear is the ALT+0128 = € which works a treat

sceptre

Originally posted by Gone Shootin
CORKO, what operating system are we talking about ?

i was called into a butchers in town to get their Widows95 pc euro symbol compliant

deaded to www.microsoft.com, did a search, found correct file for op system, downloaded, install, restart, and there ya go, euroific

Hahaha, they paid you for that?

"Good on you" is what I say.

Love it.

GoneShootin

us students gota make money somehow

Occidental

One final one to watch for is that the Euro symbol only exists in certain fonts Arial, Times New Roman etc. Therefore if someone is using Futura or one of the many other add-on fonts in Word or Excel they can try any Alt Gr 4, +128 or whatever else they want, but will never get a Euro symbol.

Bard

Originally posted by StrataGIST
lol Bard i cant see ANY of the euro symbols in YOUR post smarty pants

you should probably upgrade (or at least patch) your O/S then.

GoneShootin

you should probably upgrade (or at least patch) your O/S then.

ill do it, competitive rates offered

The Cigarette Smoking Man

There's a Windows update now that sets all PCs in the EU to use the euro as their default currency setting:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

strat

Originally posted by Bard


you should probably upgrade (or at least patch) your O/S then.

read the rest of my post please

mike65

I'm using Win98se and can't use the access the euro
symbol I've tried all the fixes above and even changed the fonts
but no luck all I get at best is a black square. HELP!

Mike.

bkehoe

98se has built in support for the €uro in most fonts. Something must have overwritten the fonts that came with the os with older versions. Do you see the euro symbol I did above?

Brendan

mike65

I can see the euro symbol on this thread, yesterday I was on a web site, unfortunatly I cant remember which, where the euro
signs were not formed instead it was a collection of letters and numbers, anyway right now on the Ireland.com and Indo
sites the euro symbol is showing, but I still can't type the damn thing! BTW I'm using Notepad to try, not Word or Excel which I dont have or need.

I've just tried Wordpad and its there! so why not in Notepad?
Will this show hang on....€ yes. problem fixed whereever it was!

Did things change becasue I switched fonts?

Just tried notepad again still nothing.Odd.


Mike.

PhilipMarlowe

"Notepad uses a special font that is no longer being maintained. That font was not included in the euro compatibility packages. Thus, the symbol cannot be used in Notepad"

seamus

Notepad has changeable fonts. The one I have seen set to default is fixedsys. Surely it would be simple for someone to add a euro symbol to this font set? I dunno how font sets are created

Bard

In Notepad, I changed my font to Lucida Sans Unicode a long time ago (MENU: Format>Font) and it contains the € EURO symbol.

Originally posted by The Cigarette Smoking Man
There's a Windows update now that sets all PCs in the EU to use the euro as their default currency setting:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

eh... or you can just go into your regional settings in control panel, click the currency tab and choose it there...

Irish_Ranger_IR

Get a new Computer !!!!

Kidding (maybe) Cut and paste it into the document or where ever, or Get a new Computer !!!!

Update keyboard drivers,
do what everyone tells you to do.
Get a new Computer !!!!

Hope this helps

schrodinger

I need to insert a euro symbol into an image using Photoshop but it wont work. And yes I have tried ctrl+alt+4 and altgr+4 and alt+4 and even alt+0128. They all dont give me the euro symbol. Anyone got any ideas?

Lucifer

need more info, wat os you running?

schrodinger

Windows 98 SE with Photoshop 5.5

Lucifer

hmmm, if you were running Win95 you would prob just need the update, can you get the symbol working in MS word or wordpad?

schrodinger

I tried copying and pasting from word didnt work either. Same with notepad

Saruman

Hate to point out the obvious but eh.. photoshop problem???
If all else works then obviously it needs an patch or something to get it working.. if one is available...

fi

It seems to me that the euro symbol only works with certain fonts, im not sure what you are supposed to do for the rest?

i wish there was just one button to press to insert it, such a hassle!!!!

sceptre

Originally posted by fi
It seems to me that the euro symbol only works with certain fonts, im not sure what you are supposed to do for the rest?

i wish there was just one button to press to insert it, such a hassle!!!!

If the font hasn't been updated to include it (or designed originally with it for newer fonts), there's nowt you can do about it.

If there was just one button to press to insert it, the problem would be the same (having said that, it would be handy, might happen some day, even with the Yanks putting the hash key over the 2 on their keyboards and calling it the "pound" (just drop the £ totally - more countries than the UK use the £ though)