Word for Mac-Currency Symbols

[John]

Word documents created on Windows machines can reproduce the British
Pound "L" currency symbol. My version of Word for Mac does not seem to
have that option (although I can produce the "Euro" symbol. Does Word for
Mac simply not have the option to create the British Pound currency symbol?

 

[Raghu Prakash]

Hi John,

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
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On the Insert menu, click Symbol.
In the Font box, click a font that supports the symbol you want.
In the Subset box, click Currency Symbols.
If Currency Symbols is not available, then the selected font does not
support currency symbols.

In the from box, click Unicode (hex).
The set of characters is limited if you select something other than Unicode
(hex) in the from box. For example, if you select a local code page rather
than Unicode (Unicode: A character encoding standard developed by the
Unicode Consortium. By using more than one byte to represent each
character, Unicode enables almost all of the written languages in the world
to be represented by using a single character set.), you will see a
correspondingly reduced set of characters in the Symbol dialog box.

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

The name of the selected symbol is displayed in the lower-left corner of
the Symbols tab.
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Type the euro currency symbol
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The following keyboard shortcut works for all keyboard layouts:
Type 20ac, and then press ALT+X.
Word automatically displays the euro symbol 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), Macedonian (FYROM) (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
Note 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.

Please let me know has this helped You...
Thank you...
Raghu...
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Raghu, instead of quoting Help topics in your posts, it would be more
helpful if you would just refer users to the appropriate topic. You cannot
make the same argument about installed Help that you (I think speciously)
make about KB articles, and referring users to the resources available to
them on their local machines encourages good habits.

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi John,

The shortcut key for £ on the Mac is Option+Shift+4.
If you forgot the shortcut, you should also find it in "Insert > Symbol",
Font=(Normal text), code=163.
The symbols are sorted by their code.

Regards,
Klaus



Word documents created on Windows machines can reproduce the British
Pound "L" currency symbol. My version of Word for Mac does not seem to
have that option (although I can produce the "Euro" symbol. Does Word for
Mac simply not have the option to create the British Pound currency symbol?