Nowadays, everyone knows what the designation of the ruble looks like. You can see the symbol of this currency in the article. In it, we will talk not only about its history of occurrence. We will also tell you how to enter the ruble symbol in the text input field. The character on the keyboard, of course, is not specified, but there are still ways to enter it. In this article, we will all consider them.
Symbol History
Initially, of course, you should pay attention to the history of the symbol. The designation of the ruble as a currency appeared in the distant thirteenth century. And almost immediately there was a need to reduce it. There were a lot of variations, but the first known option that became known to us was a combination of two letters - "p" and "y". One thing can be said for sure: this reduction appeared as a result of the evolution of the then written language in Russian. By the way, this reduction arose in the 17th century and was used until the 19th.
Nowadays, another designation of the ruble is the symbol "₽". However, it is worth noting that this writing option is relevant only for banknotes of Russian origin, and everyone knows that the ruble is used in three countries: Russia, Belarus and unrecognized Transnistria. Each country has a different one.
- in Belarus - "Br";
- in Transnistria - “P” with a line that is located vertically.
But in the article we will only talk about the Russian ruble.
Keyboard Insertion
So, the main thing we have already done, we have indicated the designation of the ruble. We know the symbol, and now it's time to tell how to enter it from the keyboard. The first method that we will use appeared relatively recently, in 2013. But it is worth noting that Microsoft has introduced this symbol not in all of its operating systems, but only in current ones.
So, continuing to talk about the designation of the ruble, the symbol on the keyboard, as mentioned above, you will not find. Here you will need to use the keyboard shortcut - Alt + 8.
Everything is quite simple, after pressing these two keys in the place where you put the cursor, the ruble symbol is printed. But it’s worth making a note that Alt needs to be clamped to the right, and not the left, but to enter the eight on the upper numeric keypad, otherwise nothing will work.
Insert using a character table
The simplest way to enter the ruble symbol was presented above. But for some reason, it may not work (a key is broken or an outdated version of Windows). What to do if you urgently need to enter the designation of the ruble? The symbol in the Word will help you with this. So, now we’ll look at a way to insert a ruble symbol into a document using the symbol table in Word.
This is done quite simply, the main thing for you is to initially open the table itself. To do this, go to the "Insert" tab. Now on the toolbar you need to find the "Symbol" button. Click on it, and select "Other characters" in the drop-down menu. Visually, you can observe the whole process in the picture below.
Now you have the table you need. As you can see, there are an unimaginable number of characters, manually searching for the right one will take a long time. In order to facilitate searches, you can select "Currency" in the "Set" drop-down list. After that, you will see the currency symbols of different countries. Find the one you need and click the "Paste" button. Pay attention to the sign code, this will come in handy later.
Using hexadecimal code
Remember the code you had to pay attention to? It is he who is the hexadecimal code of this symbol. Now we will consider how it should be used to enter the ruble symbol.
And there is practically nothing to do here, you just need to enter the code and press ALT + X. But for the sake of clarity, let's look at an example.
Suppose you enter a number in Word and want to put the ruble symbol at the end. For this:
- put the cursor in the right place;
- enter "20BD";
- Press ALT + X.
After that, the code will turn into the character we need. If you want to find out other character codes, then for this you can view them in the table with characters, simply highlighting the desired item. A set of four characters will be displayed in the "Character Code" field, which is the hexadecimal code of the selected character.
Using clipboard
Well, the last method is generally for the lazy, although few people know about it. Using the clipboard, you can paste not only a printed character into a document, but also the picture of that character itself. To do this, a picture or symbol must first be placed on the clipboard, that is, simply copied. When the desired object is in the buffer, make sure that you do not copy something else there, otherwise nothing will work.
After that, open the program or page where you will enter the character, paste the copied object using CTRL + V or the context menu.
By the way, you can use this article in order to copy the necessary material. Here is the symbol itself - "₽". By the way, in this way you can copy any character or image.