How to put the euro (€) symbol on your keyboard [solutions]

Actually, the euro symbol (€) does not serve much more than to refer to the currency in force in Europe today. However, you may occasionally want to use it and don't know how. If you are at that crossroads, stay here because we will teach you in a couple or three steps how to "install" this peculiar icon on your keyboard.

How to write the euro symbol (€)

Depending on what type of keyboard you have, there are several main ways to type the euro (€) symbol. The first thing you should do is check if your keyboard has any subkey that indicates that you will print the euro (€) when you press it.

Keys on a mechanical keyboard * with the euro symbol (€)

• The central one is the main key and the one that comes out when you press it (Example: key 3) If it is on top of another, it will be the secondary one that you print on the screen when you press it in combination Shift or Shift (Example: the · on 3). If it is to the right / below the central symbol, it will be the tertiary that will be output when combined with Ctrl + Alt or Alt Gr (Example: # to the right of 3).

When we write Alt Gr we refer to the Alt button that is to the right of the space bar and which is sometimes written as Alt and other times as Alt Gr.

Alt Gr key on a mechanical keyboard *

For the keyboard with distribution Spanish (Spain), Catalan, Basque, Italian (Italy) and Portuguese (Portugal) you can use:

• Ctrl + Alt + E Alt Gr + E Ctrl + Alt + 5 Alt Gr + 5

Don't any of these combinations work for you? Do not worry. What is happening is that if you don't have one of the keyboards listed above configured, hopefully the euro (€) symbol is hidden somewhere else.

For other keyboards we don't have these two or four combinations (it depends on how you see it). For example, these other languages ​​can only be done in this way:

• Keyboard German (Germany, Austria…) / French (France): Ctrl + Alt + E / Alt Gr + E Keyboard English (England): Ctrl + Alt + 5 / Alt Gr + 5 Keyboards Spanish (Central and South America) and English (North America): Does not exist

So how do I write a euro (€) ?

As you can see, the languages ​​that have access to the euro symbol (€) are those that are either within the European Union , or what are adjacent, and it makes sense, right? This is done because, in general, a person from Australia or Uruguay is not going to be closely related to the euro.

As a quick botch, a solution to write the euro symbol (€) is the classic copy / paste, which we can do by selecting what we want and pressing Ctrl + C (copy) and then Ctrl + V (paste).

If this patch does not work for you and you want to be able to write the euros in full, then we will have to add a keyboard from another country that can write them. For example, a Spanish (Spain) keyboard .

The problem that arises from this is that the secondary buttons (Shift + 4, Shift + 2…) will no longer write what is inscribed on the key, but you can change it back once you have typed what you wanted.

For this, we can follow two steps.

First method:

• Click on the task bar the current language symbol

Selected language in the taskbar

• Click Language Preferences

Selection of available languages

Second method:

• Press Start button Go to gear button (configuration) Enter Time and Language

Time and language in configuration

• Press Language, in the left bar.

Installed languages ​​panel

Once we are here, we can add a keyboard of another language and country that is capable of writing the euro (€) . Click on add a language and look for one of the languages ​​mentioned previously.

After this, you will only have to vary between your common writing language and the extra that you have added to write other symbols. To change you can press Shift / Shift + Alt or manually go to the taskbar and change it.

Conclusions

These are all the tips we can give you to write this peculiar symbol. From some countries and / or languages ​​capable of writing it to what is the combination they use to do it.

As a curiosity, we can tell you that, in general, American keyboards do not take much advantage of the potential of the keys. Investigating the different languages ​​and regions, we have seen that in the Americans there are hardly any combinations with Ctrl + Alt / Alt Gr.

On the other hand, many European keyboards take advantage of some combinations for special keys, with the Spanish (Spain) keyboard being one of the most used combination keys.

And so far the tutorial on the euro symbol (€) and other related topics. We hope that it has been useful for you and that you have understood it easily. If you still can't write it with these two points, it is possible that the problem comes from another site.

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As a challenge: Could you tell us which mechanical keyboard is the one used in the photos marked with an *? Comment in the comments box your ideas and if you have any questions do not hesitate to share it below.