[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The change would be system wide until you change it. Therefore, it would
affect all documents and in answer to 2, Yes, it would screw up those
columns.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Joyce" wrote in message
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I have two concerns about doing this, and would appreciate your input.
1. I edit documents in many languages. Does your suggestion have an impact
on the default language on my computer, or just when a particular language
is
assigned to the document?
2. Some tables use the conventional decimal separator for that language.
Would setting it to a hyphen screw those columns up?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Set a hyphen as the Decimal Separator in the Regional and Language
Options
item in the Control Panel

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Joyce" wrote in message
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"Joyce" wrote:

I have a table with a column that contains ranges of numbers. For
example,
4-5, 7.25-10, 0.5-16.3, etc.
I want to align them on the - (dash). Is there a way to do this? By
the
way,
I can't alter the numbers so that they all have a decimal point and
leading/following zeros.

You were close. What seems to work is to have the first tab be a right
tab
(with the tab inserted before the text in the column), and the second
tab
be
a left tab (with the tab inserted before the dash).

Setting it was a bit awkward because Word would only let me set the
tabs
within 3/10s of each other, no closer. But it works. Thanks.