How to Add and Use Indian Rupee Currency Symbol ₹ in Windows 8 OS

To Add and Use Indian Rupee Currency Symbol ₹ in Windows 8 OS , go to Settings-> Control Panel -> Languages- > Click Add a Language and Group By “language name” -> Select “English India” and Click Add. Now if the English-Indian Language Pack is already not there, it will ask you to download and install. Click yes to Download and install

 Check out the video Tutorial below to use it on the Windows 8

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Follow the ScreenShots below Step Wise

Step 1:

In windows 8 Desktop, drag your mouse cursor at the end of  right-hand side to open the settings side panel and choose Control Panel in that, like in the picture below

 

Step 2:

After Opening Control panel, choose the  Language option

 

Step 3:

After Opening language, Click “Add a language” option

 

Step 4:

Group language By language Name instead of Writing Like in the below screenshot

 

Step 5:

Select English Language option

After Selecting “Open” at the Right Bottom

 

Step 6:

Select English India

After Selecting “English India,” Click Add at the right bottom

 

Step 7:

It will ask you to download the language pack if its not already present. Click Yes and download the language pack

After finishing the above steps, you can see the “ENG” tab (in Windows 8)  in the right-hand side task bar near “Date and Time.”.

Click that and choose “English India” Keyboard .Now you can use the Indian rupee currency symbol ₹ in your notepad, wordpad, MS Word, and MS Document by using keys Ctrl + Alt + 4 (the key that is located above the currency layout with the $ symbol on it). If it doesn’t work, use the Ctrl + Alt keys on the right-hand side of the space bar and vice versa. The new keyboards have ₹ Symbol printed on them to ease our work, but older keyboards don’t, so we need to use these methods or simply copy and paste from the Internet.