.Microsoft Access 2000 (and later versions) provides full support for displaying, entering, and printing the euro currency symbol .
Note If you use Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0, you might need to add euro currency support to your system. For more information, see Windows Help.
Typing the euro currency symbol
To enter the euro currency symbol , use the following keys:
| Press | On |
|---|---|
| ALT+0128 (numeric keypad) | Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and United States 101 keyboards |
| ALTGR+E | Belgian, Belgian Dutch 120, Croatian, Czech, Czech 101, Czech Programmer's, Danish, Dutch KBD143, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German (IBM), German (Standard), Icelandic, Italian, Italian 142, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lithuanian (New), FYRO Macedonian (Cyrillic), Norwegian, Portuguese-KBD163, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovak-QWERTY, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German, Turkish F 440, and Turkish Q 179 keyboards |
| ALTGR+epsilon | Greek keyboards |
| ALTGR+4 | Irish, Latvian-QWERTY, and United Kingdom keyboards |
| ALTGR+5 | Greek Latin and U.S.-International keyboards |
| ALTGR+U | Hungarian, Hungarian 101, Polish, and Polish Programmer's keyboards |
| ALT+0136 (numeric keypad) | Cyrillic keyboards |
Displaying the euro currency symbol
The fonts you need to display the euro currency symbol are installed when you install Access. Fonts that can display the euro currency symbol are as follows:
| Operating system | Fonts |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows 95 with the euro product update | Arial Black, Arial, Comic Sans (regular and bold), Courier New, Impact, MS Sans Serif, Tahoma (regular and bold), Times New Roman, Verdana |
| Microsoft Windows 98 | Arial, Courier New, Tahoma (regular and bold), Times New Roman |
| Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 and the euro product update | Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman |
| Microsoft Windows NT 95 with Service Pack 4 | Arial, Courier New, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Times New Roman |
Printing the euro currency symbol
If your printer does not have the euro currency symbol in any of its resident fonts, a box will be printed instead of the euro currency symbol. Contact your printer vendor to find out how to get updated printer fonts that include the euro currency symbol.