Formatting for Currency

[Guest]

Dear Community,
If you are using Tabs to set up tab-align in a document, you still have to
put a currency symbol before the data. Is there a way to format this column
so it would have a currency formatting.
I tried to do this using a table instead of tabs but I still could not find
a way to format a column in a table so that the dollar signs show without
having to type them.
I am looking for something similar to Excel, where you could select
formatting, currency.

Thanks

 

[CyberTaz]

Sorry - In a spreadsheet the formatting is a property of the *cell* to which
you apply it. Not so in a word processing document. Even though the
'rectangles' in a Table are referred to as 'cells' they really aren't the
same thing.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Guest]

Dear Community,
If you are using Tabs to set up tab-align in a document, you still have to
put a currency symbol before the data. Is there a way to format this column
so it would have a currency formatting.
I tried to do this using a table instead of tabs but I still could not find
a way to format a column in a table so that the dollar signs show without
having to type them.
I am looking for something similar to Excel, where you could select
formatting, currency.

You could insert an Excel workbook into your doc and use that.
(Insert>Object) You should be able to do what you want there. What kind of
doc is it? I mean, what is it going to be used for? While you see all of
the cell info (column/row info, etc) when you work on the Excel workbook in
your doc, once you click somewhere else in your doc you will only see what
looks like a table and the cell borders don't show unless you put the
formatting in . . .

Just a thought. Not sure if it would work for your purposes. Hope that
helps in some way.