Rupee symbol for Indian Currency
Windows team released an update which adds support for the new Rupee currency symbol for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2. This update will allow users to input, view, print, and use the new symbol as the default symbol for data formatted as Indian currency, such as in Access fields, Excel cells, or the currency column in SharePoint lists.
The symbols can be inserted in two ways i.e. in any of the MS Office products using the Insert symbol command or using the Windows “Character Map” utility.The Windows update touches three main areas which are Update of font families: Microsoft Sans Serif, Times New Roman, Arial, Segoe, and Tahoma. This is used when a document is prepared in any of the MS-Office application. If you are using a font that doesn’t contain the new symbol, then change the font for that one character.
Update of 13 Indic local keyboards to input the rupee using the Ctrl+Shift+4. On the new English (India) keyboard, the AltGr+4 key combinations will input the new symbol.
Updates the locale information so that the new symbol is automatically used for items formatted as currency, such as in Access fields, Excel cells, or the currency column in SharePoint lists.
Some of the Microsoft Office programs, such as PowerPoint and InfoPath, cannot convert Unicode codes to characters. If you need a Unicode character and are using one of the programs that doesn't support Unicode characters, use the Character Map to enter the character(s) that you need.
If your printer does not have the rupee currency symbol in any of its resident fonts then look for an option called Print fonts as graphics in printer setup properties or Contact your printer vendor to find out how to get updated printer fonts that include the rupee currency symbol.