Tangent 2.2 - Manual (Page 30)

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Currency Conversion
Use this screen to calculate the Exchange Rate between two currencies. If you have
a value displayed in the Readout, that value will be passed to this screen as the
amount of the From currency (otherwise amount will be set to 1).
HINT: You can see formatted numbers in the Tooltips of each value.
When you open this screen, the From and To currencies will be set to those you
used last.
From Currency
A drop-down list of available currencies. Each currency is represented as the 3
letter abbreviation followed by the full name.
Direction Button
Used to change the direction of calculation between the From and the To val-
ues.
To Currency
A drop-down list of available currencies. Each currency is represented as the 3
letter abbreviation followed by the full name.
= (Equal Sign)
This is the result of
your conversion be-
tween the From and
the To Currencies.
D/L Rates
Click this button to
receive the latest
Currency Exchange
Rates file from the
Internet. Follow
additional in-
structions in the
message window.
NOTE: You must
subscribe to this
service separately.
Open File Button
Once you extracted
the new rates, you
need to open the
new file and the exchange rates (plus the To and From Currencies) will be re-
freshed.
Dec. Pl.
Here you can set the number of decimal places to round your exchange rate
calculation to. You can choose to round from 2 to 9 decimal places or "No" to
disable rounding.
NOTE: Rounding is performed on the actual rates as well as the result, so you
might see some minor inconsistencies.
OK Button
Click this button to enter the result value into the Calculator Readout for further
calculations.