How do I get the Euro sign to show on screen/printing etc

Question

On my keyboards, I have 2, one English, one America, how do I get the Euro sign to show up or print.

It's the 3rd icon on the 4/$ button (English) and the 5/% button (American)

Also, is it possible to change/add the £ sign to the American keyboard ?

Answer 1

You can get the Euro symbol to print by holding down the "Alt" key, tapping 0 1 2 8 on the numeric keypad with numlocks on, then release the "Alt" key.

Similarly, you can display the English Pound Sign by holding down the Alt key, tapping 0 1 6 3 on numeric keypad then release the Alt key.

Alternatively, you can use the Character Map to insert these symbols:

  ( Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map)

You can customize these symbols to your keyboard using Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator:

MSKLC:  < http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665 >

HTH,

  JW

Answer 2

On my keyboards, I have 2, one English, one America, how do I get the Euro sign to show up or print.

It's the 3rd icon on the 4/$ button (English) and the 5/% button (American)

Also, is it possible to change/add the £ sign to the American keyboard ?

There are sevral ways to do this, but by far the best, in my view, is to use a little freeware background program called AllChars. This lets me type many common special characters (many of these are used in other languages) very easily, by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two-character mnemonic combination.

As examples of how easy they are to remember, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and , For ü it's u and " And for the Euro symbol, it's E and =.