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French/English/French & Decimal Tabs
Hello,
Here's a tough one: I am trying to create two tables in one document (XP/2003). One table would show numbers in French (format: 1 765,67 $). The other table would show numbers in English (format: $1,567.89). ALSO I need to indicate my negative numbers in brakets. Fun, no? Anyway, I changed the regional settings to French and my French table is beautiful but... as soon as I start entering English numbers, well, huh-huh, the decimal tabs align on whatever comes first, either the coma or the period. Is there a way to indicate to Word that my document is displaying English and French numbers? Thank you. Hélène |
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G'day "Hélène" ,
Try defining two styles, Body Text French and Body Text English. Set the language of those styles appropriately. You MAY have some luck but I doubt. You would have to resort to hard formatting. Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice Hélène reckoned: Hello, Here's a tough one: I am trying to create two tables in one document (XP/2003). One table would show numbers in French (format: 1 765,67 $). The other table would show numbers in English (format: $1,567.89). ALSO I need to indicate my negative numbers in brakets. Fun, no? Anyway, I changed the regional settings to French and my French table is beautiful but... as soon as I start entering English numbers, well, huh-huh, the decimal tabs align on whatever comes first, either the coma or the period. Is there a way to indicate to Word that my document is displaying English and French numbers? Thank you. Hélène |
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Oh, goodness, I was so hoping it would do the trick but, no...
Even when I do the "hard" formatting, it does not work. The tab stops at the first comma it encounters, therefore ignoring the period that separate dollars and cents. I need to find a way to bypass the Regional settings in Office XP. Any idea? Thank you. Hélène "Word Heretic" wrote: G'day "Hélène" , Try defining two styles, Body Text French and Body Text English. Set the language of those styles appropriately. You MAY have some luck but I doubt. You would have to resort to hard formatting. Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice Hélène reckoned: Hello, Here's a tough one: I am trying to create two tables in one document (XP/2003). One table would show numbers in French (format: 1 765,67 $). The other table would show numbers in English (format: $1,567.89). ALSO I need to indicate my negative numbers in brakets. Fun, no? Anyway, I changed the regional settings to French and my French table is beautiful but... as soon as I start entering English numbers, well, huh-huh, the decimal tabs align on whatever comes first, either the coma or the period. Is there a way to indicate to Word that my document is displaying English and French numbers? Thank you. Hélène |
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Hi ?B?SMOpbMOobmU=?=,
Even when I do the "hard" formatting, it does not work. The tab stops at the first comma it encounters, therefore ignoring the period that separate dollars and cents. I need to find a way to bypass the Regional settings in Office XP. Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass Windows Regional settings in Word. Your only choices are - type the formatting manually - use a macro to force the formatting I'd be inclined to say: choose a non-proportional font for the table content, with right-alignment (or a right-aligned tab stop). Another possible approach would be to break the numbers in two columns, one right-, the other left-aligned. You can reduce the cell margins and remove any borders so that the appearance would be acceptable. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Thank you for yet another good suggestion. Finally, the answer is this:
create a macro that will let you change the Windows Regional Settings directly from Word. It works wonders! Hélène "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?SMOpbMOobmU=?=, Even when I do the "hard" formatting, it does not work. The tab stops at the first comma it encounters, therefore ignoring the period that separate dollars and cents. I need to find a way to bypass the Regional settings in Office XP. Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass Windows Regional settings in Word. Your only choices are - type the formatting manually - use a macro to force the formatting I'd be inclined to say: choose a non-proportional font for the table content, with right-alignment (or a right-aligned tab stop). Another possible approach would be to break the numbers in two columns, one right-, the other left-aligned. You can reduce the cell margins and remove any borders so that the appearance would be acceptable. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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