Setting a base currency and exchange rates
Before you can make currency conversions, you need to choose a base currency (usually
your domestic currency) and add exchange rates.
Note: The rate of the base currency is always 1. The base currency determines the
conversion rates of the other currencies.
Example: If you
set the Euro as the base
currency, a Euro is
5.94573 Finnish mark
(FIM). Thus, you would
write 5.94573 as the
exchange rate for the FIM.
1 Select
Currency
as the measure type and select
Options
→
Currency rates
. A list of
currencies opens and you can see the current base currency at the top.
2 To change the base currency, scroll to the currency (usually your domestic currency),
and select
Options
→
Set as base curr.
.
Important: When you change the base currency, all previously set exchange
rates are set to 0 and you need to key in new rates.
3 Add exchange rates (see example), scroll to the currency, and key in a new rate, that is,
how many units of the currency equal one unit of the base currency you have selected.
4 After you have inserted all the needed exchange rates, you can make currency
conversions, see
‘Converting units’
, p.
98
.