But note that other characters specified in Regional Options can
indeed affect your documents. I'm thinking of the list separator
character, which is used by Word when you create a table of contents
from custom styles.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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To clarify, you can use Control Panel | Regional Options to specify
what
characters are used as decimal points and thousands separators, but
this
does not affect formatting in Word. In order to force numbers into a
mask
that includes commas, dollar or percent signs, or other such
characters, you
need to be using a field of some sort with a formatting switch.
Ordinary
tables (unlike Excel spreadsheets) don't offer this feature.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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You can do this in Control Panel.

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"Nickyvan" wrote in message
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I want to set up a number format to use commas as separators and
parenthases
(instead of minus sign) as default, i.e. (1,200,000).