This is a problem most accountants have when working with financial
statements. With proportional fonts, and underlining columns of numbers, how
do you get a consistently-sized space in front of the numbers so that the
underlining lines up correctly? (This is easily achieved with a Courier font,
because a space equals a Courier letter or number, but the proportional fonts
have a better appearance.)

I tried to attach a table to illustrate but was unsuccessful.

Thanks!

If I understand what you're asking, I'd probably use a tab. But you say you
have a table so can you not use borders?

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Enjoy,
Tony

"AngieM" wrote in message
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This is a problem most accountants have when working with financial
statements. With proportional fonts, and underlining columns of numbers,
how
do you get a consistently-sized space in front of the numbers so that the
underlining lines up correctly? (This is easily achieved with a Courier
font,
because a space equals a Courier letter or number, but the proportional
fonts
have a better appearance.)

I tried to attach a table to illustrate but was unsuccessful.

Thanks!

Don't use underlined spaces to create your lines. Tabs would work better,
and would align perfectly. Set one tab where you want the line to begin,
another (perhaps a decimal tab) to line up the numbers, and another where you
want the line to end. Use the underline leader (under Format - Tabs) to make
those tabs underlined.

Another option to use is to actually create a table, with all cell borders
deleted except the bottom border of the cells that need to be underlined.

I hope this helps.

Fred

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"AngieM" wrote:

This is a problem most accountants have when working with financial
statements. With proportional fonts, and underlining columns of numbers, how
do you get a consistently-sized space in front of the numbers so that the
underlining lines up correctly? (This is easily achieved with a Courier font,
because a space equals a Courier letter or number, but the proportional fonts
have a better appearance.)

I tried to attach a table to illustrate but was unsuccessful.

Thanks!

I usually find that this works pretty well with TNR and Arial. Each figure
is about two spaces wide; a comma is one space; a dollar sign is two. If you
want more accuracy, instead of using underlines, apply a bottom border to
the paragraph (this allows you to space it farther from the bottom of the
text, too), and then set paragraph indents right and left so that the
underline just clears the figures.

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"AngieM" wrote in message
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This is a problem most accountants have when working with financial
statements. With proportional fonts, and underlining columns of numbers,
how
do you get a consistently-sized space in front of the numbers so that the
underlining lines up correctly? (This is easily achieved with a Courier
font,
because a space equals a Courier letter or number, but the proportional
fonts
have a better appearance.)

I tried to attach a table to illustrate but was unsuccessful.

Thanks!