You can set a decimal tab stop in the cells where you want the decimals
aligned (you can highlight the whole column of cells together while you click
in the ruler to set the tab). Make sure the alignment is set to left-aligned
for those cells, the numbers may align to the decimal tab automatically, if
they don't you can place your cursor to the left of each number and press
CTRL+TAB. See http://www.allaboutoffice.co.uk/wordtabs.htm for more
information.

Andrea Jones

"Cherry" wrote:

I've made a table in word. Approx 10 columns across, several rows going down
(leading to several pages when complete). All columns/rows are text except
the last column/row which is numerical with decimal points in each figure.
The decimal is in different locations in the groups of numbers in each col.
In some, the decimal may have 2 numbers to the right and 3 numbers to the
left of it. Some may have one number to the right, 2 to the left... this just
varies in each row, some even have more numbers than others (in a particular
group). Left/right/center/justify doesn't work for me in this case because I
need the decimal point to align evenly all the way down this column, not the
numbers themselves. This will be several pages long. I don't want to use
Excel for this, just MS Word. Can anyone (oh please) tell me how to keep my
decimal aligned all the way down, regardless of how many numbers are to the
left/right of decimal in each row (group of numbers). I'm not working with
currency or anything like that. I hope someone can help me. I thank you in
advance so very much. I'm getting a migraine from this.