Display and enter the euro and other currency symbols

Microsoft Word provides full support for displaying and entering the euro and other currency symbols.

Use the Symbol dialog box to insert the euro and other currency symbols

1. On the Insert menu, click Symbol.
2. In the Font box, click a font that supports the symbol you want.
3. In the from box, click Unicode (hex).

   The set of characters is limited if you select something other than Unicode in the from box. For example, if you select a local code page rather than Unicode, you will see a correspondingly reduced set of characters in the Symbol dialog box.

4. In the Subset box, select Currency Symbols.

   If Currency Symbols is not available, then the selected font does not support currency symbols.

5. Select the currency symbol you want, and then click Insert.

Tip

The name of the selected symbol is displayed in the lower-left corner of the Symbols tab.

Type the euro currency symbol

The following keyboard shortcut works for all keyboard layouts:

• Type 20ac, and then press ALT+X.

  Word automatically displays the euro in the correct font.

Depending on your keyboard layout, you can also use the following keyboard shortcuts:

ALT+0128 (numeric pad)

Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, or United States 101 keyboard

ALT+0136 (numeric pad)

Cyrillic keyboard

ALT GR+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, or Turkish Q 179 keyboard

ALT GR+epsilon

Greek keyboard

ALT GR+4

Irish, Latvian-QWERTY, or United Kingdom keyboard

ALT GR+5

Greek Latin or United States-International keyboard

ALT GR+U

Hungarian, Hungarian 101, Polish or Polish Programmer's keyboard

Notes

• If you use Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0, you may need to add Microsoft euro currency support to your system.

• If your printer does not have the euro currency symbol in its resident fonts, a box will be printed instead of the euro currency symbol. Contact your printer vendor to find out how to update your printer fonts to include the euro currency symbol.