Ultimately, Excel expects you to enter text, numbers, formulas, or mathematical symbols only into its cells, so you should avoid inserting anything else—including currency symbols.

There is an easy way to generate currency exchange rates in Microsoft Excel in real-time and we show you how to do it the right way.

How to Change the Currency on iWork Numbers. The Numbers application that comes with Apple's iWork productivity suite is the equivalent to Microsoft's Excel application. As such, the application ...