The steps to use the new Indian Rupee Symbol as a Font in your word applications:
1. Download the attached font Rupee.ttf
2. Copy the font and paste it in "Fonts" folder in Control Panel.
3. Open any Microsoft Office application (For E.g., Microsoft Office Word).
4. Select the font type as Rupee.
5. Click on ` (Grave accent) symbol. This key is just above "tab" button in your keyboard.
6. You can see the new Rupee symbol in your office application.
Figure 1.a. Rupee Symbol in MS word
Figure 1.b. Rupee Symbol in Gmail application
Figure2. Grave Accent Symbol
Limitations:
The "Rupee.ttf" font is necessary to view the currency symbol. So as long as the new symbol is not encoded in to Unicode font by default, we cant use the symbol universally.
1. Download the attached font Rupee.ttf
2. Copy the font and paste it in "Fonts" folder in Control Panel.
3. Open any Microsoft Office application (For E.g., Microsoft Office Word).
4. Select the font type as Rupee.
5. Click on ` (Grave accent) symbol. This key is just above "tab" button in your keyboard.
6. You can see the new Rupee symbol in your office application.
Figure 1.a. Rupee Symbol in MS word
Figure 1.b. Rupee Symbol in Gmail application
Figure2. Grave Accent Symbol
Limitations:
The "Rupee.ttf" font is necessary to view the currency symbol. So as long as the new symbol is not encoded in to Unicode font by default, we cant use the symbol universally.
