Friends,
A Few months ago the Indian Government has announced the Symbol for Rupee currency. It could take some time to be popular and implement the same in all over the world. Further if someone wants to use this symbol, then it is not available in the present keyboards. Then How to Use this New Rupee Symbol. Friends, here is the technique to use this symbol.
A Mangalore based company Foradian Technologies has already made a new font available for users who would like to use the new Rupee symbol on their computers. While the sign may take time to be adopted by Unicode, that doesn't mean you should not be using the font all the while.
How to use ?
1. Download the above attached font Rupee.ttf or the new version Rupee_Foradian.ttf from the Links given below.
2. To Install this font Just copy the font and paste it in "Fonts" folder in control panel.
3. Now you can easily use this Font. Start using it.
System to type the Rupee symbol :-
Follow these steps in MS Office/Excel to use this Font
Download the Rupee Firadian.ttf which given in the above.
Just copy and paste that in the Fonts folder (general location is C:\WINDOWS\Fonts). If you still not found..search for fonts in the windows search..you will definitely find.
Open MS Office - Word or MS EXCEL
Select and Change the font to Rupee (Generally Arial or Times New Roman will be there)
Just Press the button '~' which is above the TAB button and left to the button '1' and below the 'Esc' button.
Optional step : Select the symbol and change the size to bigger (48 or 76 which ever you like)
Have you got it...?
Rupee symbol mapped the grave accent symbol - ` (the key just above "tab" button in your keyboard) with the new Rupee symbol. Just select "Rupee" font from the drop down list of your fonts in your application and press the key just above your tab button. It will display our new rupee symbol. Try it.
