But the OP can use a calculation form field.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Well, it is correct that a protected form allows you to specify a
numeric format. What complicates matters is that the OP also wants to
calculate results in cells (using the SUM formula) and this wouldn't
work in a protected document. Of course, it may be possible to use the
techniques described in the article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm, but this
might be too much work (it certainly would be to me!) to get formatted
numbers in table cells.

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"Allabout" wrote in message
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You can put form fields in your table and format these as numbers,
setting
the format to $#,##0.00;($#,##0.00) when you protect the form the
user will
only be able to fill in the form fields and they will format as they
are
completed.

Andrea Jones

"Josh" wrote in message
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I know there is no way on the format options, but can't you
programatically
format the table?

"Steel" wrote:

Is there anyway to format numbers in a Word table? For
example, I
would like
to enter 9876543 and have it automatically convert to
$9,876,543.00 as you
can do in Excel. I realize you can do this in the function
cell,
but I can't
figure out how to do it in other cells.