I want to be able to enter numbers in a word document, and be able to format
them as to commas; e.g. 10,256,312 instead of 10256312. I do not want to
import excel or to use word tables.

Any ideas?

Word does not automatically format numbers except by using a field switch,
but for that the number has to be in a field
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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bobk2 wrote:
I want to be able to enter numbers in a word document, and be able to
format them as to commas; e.g. 10,256,312 instead of 10256312. I do
not want to import excel or to use word tables.

Any ideas?

Type the following: 10,256,312

IOW, in Word you need to type the format you want to see. You can only
utilize a number format for certain Word fields and Word tables does
not allow you to format numbers as you can in Excel.

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"bobk2" wrote in message
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I want to be able to enter numbers in a word document, and be able to
format
them as to commas; e.g. 10,256,312 instead of 10256312. I do not
want to
import excel or to use word tables.

Any ideas?