[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, alas, you can't specify the alignment character as you can in
WordPerfect, but it will work with most non-numeric characters; for example,
it will align times (hours and minutes) on the colon.

My initial point, however, was that it will align decimal amounts on the
place where the decimal point would be if there were one.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
I didn't know that -- but in a list of prices, there wouldn't be such
a character.

In FrameMaker you can specify any character at all for the decimal tab
to line up on -- can you do that in Word?

On Oct 16, 4:57 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
you could set a Decimal Tab (but

then you'd have to type the tab and type the point even if there were
no cents, and that would look funny; if you're going to type .00 you
might as well use the first method and not have to type the tab).

You do not need to include a decimal point. A decimal tab aligns numbers
on
the first non-numeric character in a number series (not counting the
thousands separator). See Figure 10
inhttp://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NumberAlignment.htm. I agree,
though,
that in columns of currency, if any item has cents, all should have them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

...

You could make the paragraph alignment Flush Right, and then your
decimal points will line up as long as every entry has a point and
some cents (you have to include ,00); if you always have a decimal
point but don't always have cents, you could set a Decimal Tab (but
then you'd have to type the tab and type the point even if there were
no cents, and that would look funny; if you're going to type .00 you
might as well use the first method and not have to type the tab).

On Oct 16, 12:46 pm, Marie FP
wrote:
I have set up a Word table that includes cells where the user will be
entering dollar amounts in a column. How can I format the cells so
that
the
dollar amounts line up with the decimal point? In other words, can
Word
cells be formatted so that numbers automatically are entered from
right
to
left (similar to Excel)? Thanks much! -MP