Getting Started
 
To install Euro Assistant, simply copy the "MaBaSoft Euro Assistant 1.2.1" folder on your hard disk.

When Euro Assistant runs for the first time, it displays a dialog box providing you general information and reminding you to read the Euro Assistant's liability limitations in the Introduction chapter of this documentation before continuing. If you agree with them, click the "Continue" button.

The "Euro Assistant Setup" dialog box is then displayed: it helps you to configure Euro Assistant, by letting you specify a language (Euro Assistant is multilingual), your national currency and its rounding.

Language Setup
 
Euro Assistant is a multilingual application, which runs in 10 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish and Danish.
Select the desired language for menus, windows, dialog and alert boxes in the Languages popup menu.

Currency Setup
 Euro Assistant is an euro currency conversion calculator. Select your national EMU currency or one of the predefined non-EMU currencies in the Currencies popup menu.

The Currencies popup menu lists:

• the 11 currencies of the EMU member countries (Belgian Franc BEF, German Mark DEM, Spanish Peseta ESP, French Franc FRF, Irish Punt IEP, Italian Lira ITL, Luxembourgian Franc LUF, Dutch Guilder NLG, Austrian Schilling ATS, Portuguese Escudo PTE, Finnish Mark FIM);

• the 4 currencies of the EU member countries not participating to the Economic and Monetary Union (Danish Krone DKK, Greek Drachma GRD, Pound Sterling GBP, Swedish Krona SEK);

• 6 other "important" non-UE currencies (Australian Dollar AUD, Canadian Dollar CAD, Swiss Franc CHF, Japanese Yen JPY, Norwegian Krone NOK, US Dollar USD).

If your national currency is missing in the Currencies popup menu, click "OK" to close the "Euro Assistant Setup" dialog box and select the "Currencies..." command in the File menu to display the "Currencies" dialog box. There you'll be able to define your custom currency - see Defining a Custom Currency.

Rounding Setup
 
Currency conversions generally imply the rounding of the result. Euro Assistant therefore asks you to specify how your currency's rounding should be performed.

Typically you'll want to round your currency to its smallest subdivision (e.g. 1 centime for FRF, 1 Pfennig for DEM, 1 lira for ITL, ... ) or to the smallest available coin. Select the corresponding amount in the Rounding popup menu.

Once you have selected a language, a currency and the corresponding rounding, click "OK" to close the "Euro Assistant Setup" dialog box and to show the Euro Assistant window, which will list two currencies, your national currency (e.g. BEF) and the European single currency (EUR).

A display is associated to each currency and your currency's display is focused to show you it is the "active" display. Any digit you'll type will be entered there.
You're ready to use Euro Assistant!