Aligning text in tables

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Paul

Hi,

I'm tidying up a long document that contains many tables with columns of
numbers. The document owners insist on show negative numbers in brackets and
there are also quite a few tables with numbers with decimal places.

I created a style for 'Table Numbers' which includes a decimal tab to help
line these numbers up. Unfortunately some tables have quite long numbers (or
wide columns to accomodate headings) while others are small. Becuase I can't
define the decimal tab in terms of the distance from the right (rather than
the left) of the cell the tab position for 'Table Numbers' is not always
appropriate (the ability to define tabs in terms of their distance from the
right of a cell must surely be on the wish list for Word?).

The best solution I have managed is to create three styles ('Table Numbers
Narrow', 'Table Numbers', 'Table Numbers Wide') and also to create three
macros that will automatically size selected columns to Narrow, Normal or
Wide.

Does anyone have a better solution to this problem? The tables vary greatly
in the number and width of columns so I don't think the AutoText route is
appropriate.

Thanks

Paul
 

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