commas in figures of four or more digits (e.g., 1,000)

[Dulcis]

Is there a way of getting MS Word 2004 for Mac automatically to place a
comma before every group of three digits, counting from the right, to
mark off the thousands when calculating the sum of a column of figures
in a table (e.g., 1,000,000)? I have been unable to find an answer in
Word's Help file or in Maria Langer' s Microsoft Word for Mac OS X.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Have a look at the help topic "Numeric Picture (\#) field switch" for
instructions.

And see if you can pick up a cheap copy of a Word 2000 Reference: chances
are it will be a lot more complete than anything written for Office 2004.

Cheers

Is there a way of getting MS Word 2004 for Mac automatically to place a
comma before every group of three digits, counting from the right, to
mark off the thousands when calculating the sum of a column of figures
in a table (e.g., 1,000,000)? I have been unable to find an answer in
Word's Help file or in Maria Langer' s Microsoft Word for Mac OS X.

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