If you want it to be as easy as in WordPerfect, you embed an Excel sheet.
Otherwise, you have to use fields and formatting switches.

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"OldFatDog" wrote in message
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I can't believe it isn't as easy as it is in WordPerfect (click on the
table
tab, then numeric format and there you are). How would you switch between
formats; currency, accounting, commas, date/time, etc.?