Rupee Symbol Shortcut Key Microsoft Word

There at quite a few pages floating around on the web for typing Rupee symbol in Word but strangely, none of them seemed to fit me. Working on my 100+ pages, I need to use the symbol maybe some 20-30 times and had no intention to use a specific font supporting Rupee symbol for all the text. I needed the content in Garamond, and a Rupee symbol here and there, in a few places. Here’s how:

1. Download Rupee Foradian font (I got it from http://www.finance.kar.nic.in/others/rupee.htm) .Unzip the font file Rupee_Foradian.ttf file. You may unzip anywhere (the file!)  … the location does not matter.
2. In Windows 7 and 10, right click Rupee_Foradian.ttf and click install. 
3. Once the Font is installed, open Microsoft Word (I’m using Office 2010). Open “Insert” > “Symbol” > “More Symbols”. 
4. In the drop down box for “Font”, choose “Rupee Foradian”.
5. Click on the Rupee symbol; it should be fifth line, first column.
6. Click on the button “Shortcut Key”. Then in the empty box marked “Press new shortcut key”, type the key you want for Rupee symbol (I use <Alt> + <r> keys). Then press the “Assign” button.
7. That’s it. You’re done. Use any font you like to type the main body of the text. Every time you press Alt-R in Word, the Rupee symbol shall be typed. Note that if you are sharing a soft copy of this file, the Rupee symbol might not appear properly on a computer which does not have Rupee_Foradian font installed. Also, when taking a printout, better take a test page to see how it comes out (but that is quite obvious I guess).