Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Posts: 917 Location: The Universe
I recently bought a new keyboard to replace the POS that came with a new system I bought a couple of years ago. One notable feature of the keyboard is one key has a Euro symbol on the numeric 5 key.
Is there any way to get the Euro symbol into a document in Windoze? I have tried Control-5 and Alt-5 with no success.
Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7309 Location: Inside the Matrix
There's a couple of Accessability features of Windows. One is that you can get an on-screen clickable-image of a keyboard. The other is "sticky keys".
You can (at least I could) get to stick-keys by simply holding down a key too long. If I paused whilst typing, with a finger on Shift the lunatic computer would think I wanted sticky-keys. In older Windows, there was a bug in the code to allow you to not enter the "sticky" behaviour, so it was really annoying if you don't want it. Currently I think it is OK. So once set up, you hold a key until it "sticks" (like you pressed AltGr) and then press the next needed key (which you can also make stick if wanted). So, for me, with my UK keyboard, it is AltGr-4, unlike Peter.
There used to be some add-on "foot pedals" you could get (long ago). So you could use your feet for shift, alt, etc. I have no clue if they are still made, but I'd expect so.
Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Posts: 1787 Location: Bloomington, IL
I assume that you're using Word.
Type 20AC (if the previous character is 0-9 or A-F, you must have a space before this string). Press ALT-X (this is doable with one hand; I know because I have very limited use of my left hand). Unless the font is something exotic like Webdings, that should generate €.
Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 2454 Location: Hampshire, UK
On my keyboard € is on the 4 key and is accessed by AltGr+4. This could be a bit of a stretch, not so much if it is on the 5 key. AltGr being the right hand Alt key.
Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 2481 Location: Netherlands, Amstelveen
It is not that difficult, what ever keyboard you have change it to the language for the currency, and do the AltGr trick. It even worked for me on a Hebrew keyboard.
But it is not something very important, because the poster could have found out this for himself, reading all his previous comments.
