[lols9]

Can anyone help please. I have set up my XP and Office Prof and when typing
in word, my dollar sign ($ - this is what it should look like) has 2 lines
thru it as in the American Dollar and not one as in the Australian Dollar.
Please help as it is doing it in all my documents.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What font are you using? AFAIK, there's only one dollar symbol (U0024), but
it may have two strokes in some fonts (FWIW, the U.S. dollar uses a single
stroke as well). Even in Arial Unicode MS, the Currency Symbols character
subset does not offer a different dollar sign, and even if it did, you'd
need an AutoCorrect entry or the like to produce it by pressing the dollar
key on your keyboard.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"lols9" wrote in message
...
Can anyone help please. I have set up my XP and Office Prof and when
typing
in word, my dollar sign ($ - this is what it should look like) has 2 lines
thru it as in the American Dollar and not one as in the Australian Dollar.
Please help as it is doing it in all my documents.

[lols9]

Thanks Suzanne, I have managed to fix it by reinstalling word. Don't know
why it did that as I have been using it for years without a problem. It just
started typing the wrong characters. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Regards
Loraine

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

What font are you using? AFAIK, there's only one dollar symbol (U0024), but
it may have two strokes in some fonts (FWIW, the U.S. dollar uses a single
stroke as well). Even in Arial Unicode MS, the Currency Symbols character
subset does not offer a different dollar sign, and even if it did, you'd
need an AutoCorrect entry or the like to produce it by pressing the dollar
key on your keyboard.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"lols9" wrote in message
...
Can anyone help please. I have set up my XP and Office Prof and when
typing
in word, my dollar sign ($ - this is what it should look like) has 2 lines
thru it as in the American Dollar and not one as in the Australian Dollar.
Please help as it is doing it in all my documents.