Getting Started
 
To install Euro Assistant Pro, simply copy the "Euro Assistant Pro 2.1" folder on your hard disk.

 





















When you startup Euro Assistant Pro for the first time, a dialog box is displayed providing you general information and reminding you to read the liability limitations in the Introduction chapter of this documentation before continuing. If you agree with them, click "Continue" to display the "Euro Assistant Pro Setup" dialog box. It will help you to configure Euro Assistant Pro by letting you specify a language (multilingual version of Euro Assistant Pro), the currencies you want to display in the Euro Assistant Pro window, their rounding and (in case you displayed non-EMU currencies) whether you want to update their euro exchange rates to their latest value before starting to work with Euro Assistant Pro.


Step 1: Language Setup
 
Euro Assistant Pro exists in two versions: a multilingual version running in 10 languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Finnish) and a Japanese version.
If you are running the multilingual version, then Euro Assistant Pro asks you to specify a language for menus, windows, dialog and alert boxes. Choose the desired language in the popup menu, then click "Continue".

 
























Notice that the Greek language is available provided that a Greek system software is running and that the language setup is not performed by the Japanese Euro Assistant Pro.


Step 2: Currencies Setup
 
Euro Assistant Pro is a currency conversion calculator. You're therefore asked to specify the currencies you want to display in the Euro Assistant Pro window. Minimum number of currencies is two, maximum number is 12.

 






















The predefined currencies of Euro Assistant Pro are:

• the European single currency, the Euro;
• the 11 currencies of the EMU member countries (Belgian Franc, German Mark, Spanish Peseta, French Franc, Irish Punt, Italian Lira, Luxembourgian Franc, Dutch Guilder, Austrian Schilling, Portuguese Escudo, Finnish Mark);
• the 4 currencies of the EU member countries not participating to the Economic and Monetary Union (Danish Krone, Greek Drachma, Pound Sterling, Swedish Krona);
• 6 other "important" non-UE currencies (Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Swiss Franc, Japanese Yen, Norwegian Krone, US Dollar).

If you need one or more currencies which are not available in the list, you can add them by clicking the "New Currency..." button and by specifying their name, ISO code and euro exchange rate (see Defining a Custom Currency). Up to 5 custom currencies can be defined.

Once you have added all needed currencies to the Euro Assistant Pro window, click "Continue".


Step 3: Rounding Setup
 
Currency conversions generally imply the rounding of the result. Euro Assistant Pro therefore asks you to specify the desired rounding for each currency you've added to the Euro Assistant Pro window.

 






















Currencies should be generally rounded to their smallest subdivision (e.g. 1 eurocent for EUR, 1 Pfennig for DEM, 1 centime for FRF, 1 lira for ITL ... ). Another possibility is to round them to their smallest coin.

For each currency displayed in the Euro Assistant Pro window select the desired rounding in the popup menu, then click "Continue" to switch to the next displayed currency.


Step 4: Exchange Rates Setup
 
In case you added one or more non-EMU currencies to the Euro Assistant Pro window and you have Open Transport, Euro Assistant Pro asks you whether you want to update their euro exchange rates over the Internet right after closing the "Euro Assistant Pro Setup" dialog box and before starting to work with Euro Assistant Pro.

 























Click "OK" to close the "Euro Assistant Pro Setup" dialog box and show the Euro Assistant Pro window. The framed display is the active display: each digit you'll type will be entered into it. You're ready to use Euro Assistant Pro.