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Decimal Tab Characters
Is there a way to set different characters that the decimal tab lines up on
in Word 2003? In Wordperfect you could for example change the align character to #, and then use a decimal tab so that all the #s on various lines (and only the #s) lined up: e.g. 123#45 56#89 In my specific case, I want a space to be interpreted as an alignment character in one place but not in another: e.g. First two numbers are aligned on space, and second two on . 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 In Wordperfect this would require redefining the align character from ' '(space) to . between the second and third lines - which is be fine. In Word I don't know how to redefine the alignment character, and I get: 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 I can't seem to find anything in Help or the Discussion Groups that talks about this. Thanks |
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Decimal Tab Characters
I know it works for colons but you need a decimal character. Please don't
ask me what characters that includes because I don't know. (Common sense says it has to have a decimal in it somewhere.) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Is there a way to set different characters that the decimal tab lines up on in Word 2003? In Wordperfect you could for example change the align character to #, and then use a decimal tab so that all the #s on various lines (and only the #s) lined up: e.g. 123#45 56#89 In my specific case, I want a space to be interpreted as an alignment character in one place but not in another: e.g. First two numbers are aligned on space, and second two on . 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 In Wordperfect this would require redefining the align character from ' '(space) to . between the second and third lines - which is be fine. In Word I don't know how to redefine the alignment character, and I get: 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 I can't seem to find anything in Help or the Discussion Groups that talks about this. Thanks |
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Decimal Tab Characters
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NumberAlignment.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Is there a way to set different characters that the decimal tab lines up on in Word 2003? In Wordperfect you could for example change the align character to #, and then use a decimal tab so that all the #s on various lines (and only the #s) lined up: e.g. 123#45 56#89 In my specific case, I want a space to be interpreted as an alignment character in one place but not in another: e.g. First two numbers are aligned on space, and second two on . 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 In Wordperfect this would require redefining the align character from ' '(space) to . between the second and third lines - which is be fine. In Word I don't know how to redefine the alignment character, and I get: 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 I can't seem to find anything in Help or the Discussion Groups that talks about this. Thanks |
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I couldn't find anything that would tell me what a "decimal character" was.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NumberAlignment.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Is there a way to set different characters that the decimal tab lines up on in Word 2003? In Wordperfect you could for example change the align character to #, and then use a decimal tab so that all the #s on various lines (and only the #s) lined up: e.g. 123#45 56#89 In my specific case, I want a space to be interpreted as an alignment character in one place but not in another: e.g. First two numbers are aligned on space, and second two on . 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 In Wordperfect this would require redefining the align character from ' '(space) to . between the second and third lines - which is be fine. In Word I don't know how to redefine the alignment character, and I get: 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 I can't seem to find anything in Help or the Discussion Groups that talks about this. Thanks |
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Thanks to both of you for your responses - I'm sure it doesn't get said often
enough, but your and other volunteer responses are fantastic - including those from the archives where I often find answers and don't have occasion to thank you. However, in this instance, unless I have misunderstood something, neither "fix" works - because Word interprets my first space as the decimal align character - and this happens quite often for me (I'm in Canada), because in the strict metric SI system, the thousands separator is supposed to be a space not a comma (cheques excepted for obvious reasons). As JoAnn points out, it is the first non-numeric that is interpreted as the align character, so it doesn't make any difference if I use a soft or hard space. And as I said, Wordperfect allows one to define a single character as the alignment character, so enabling one to get around this problem. Regards Oliver "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NumberAlignment.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Is there a way to set different characters that the decimal tab lines up on in Word 2003? In Wordperfect you could for example change the align character to #, and then use a decimal tab so that all the #s on various lines (and only the #s) lined up: e.g. 123#45 56#89 In my specific case, I want a space to be interpreted as an alignment character in one place but not in another: e.g. First two numbers are aligned on space, and second two on . 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 In Wordperfect this would require redefining the align character from ' '(space) to . between the second and third lines - which is be fine. In Word I don't know how to redefine the alignment character, and I get: 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 I can't seem to find anything in Help or the Discussion Groups that talks about this. Thanks |
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You might try inserting a decimal point where you want the numbers to align
and formatting it as Font Color: White. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Thanks to both of you for your responses - I'm sure it doesn't get said often enough, but your and other volunteer responses are fantastic - including those from the archives where I often find answers and don't have occasion to thank you. However, in this instance, unless I have misunderstood something, neither "fix" works - because Word interprets my first space as the decimal align character - and this happens quite often for me (I'm in Canada), because in the strict metric SI system, the thousands separator is supposed to be a space not a comma (cheques excepted for obvious reasons). As JoAnn points out, it is the first non-numeric that is interpreted as the align character, so it doesn't make any difference if I use a soft or hard space. And as I said, Wordperfect allows one to define a single character as the alignment character, so enabling one to get around this problem. Regards Oliver "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NumberAlignment.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Is there a way to set different characters that the decimal tab lines up on in Word 2003? In Wordperfect you could for example change the align character to #, and then use a decimal tab so that all the #s on various lines (and only the #s) lined up: e.g. 123#45 56#89 In my specific case, I want a space to be interpreted as an alignment character in one place but not in another: e.g. First two numbers are aligned on space, and second two on . 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 In Wordperfect this would require redefining the align character from ' '(space) to . between the second and third lines - which is be fine. In Word I don't know how to redefine the alignment character, and I get: 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 I can't seem to find anything in Help or the Discussion Groups that talks about this. Thanks |
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Decimal Tab Characters
You're right; the article doesn't actually cover this specific situation,
and Word doesn't allow you to define an alignment character. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... I couldn't find anything that would tell me what a "decimal character" was. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/NumberAlignment.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Oliver St Quintin" wrote in message ... Is there a way to set different characters that the decimal tab lines up on in Word 2003? In Wordperfect you could for example change the align character to #, and then use a decimal tab so that all the #s on various lines (and only the #s) lined up: e.g. 123#45 56#89 In my specific case, I want a space to be interpreted as an alignment character in one place but not in another: e.g. First two numbers are aligned on space, and second two on . 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 In Wordperfect this would require redefining the align character from ' '(space) to . between the second and third lines - which is be fine. In Word I don't know how to redefine the alignment character, and I get: 234 56 111 15 1 234.56 1 111.15 I can't seem to find anything in Help or the Discussion Groups that talks about this. Thanks |
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Hi Oliver
Oliver St Quintin wrote: However, in this instance, unless I have misunderstood something, neither "fix" works - because Word interprets my first space as the decimal align character - and this happens quite often for me (I'm in Canada), because in the strict metric SI system, the thousands separator is supposed to be a space not a comma (cheques excepted for obvious reasons). Actually, it's supposed to be a "small space": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-0#Numbers I'm not quite sure there is a good equivalent in Word (I'm at 2000 version right now) for a small space. The Unicode characters would be U+2009 (Thin Space) or U+202F (Narrow No-break Space). If you don't find a good alternative, you may format a normal non-breaking space in a smaller font size (unless you want to stay with a non-breaking space itself :-)). 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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