numeric formatting within a cell

[CKR]

My employer has recently asked me to switch all of the form templates I
created a few years ago from Word Perfect to WORD. In my job, I chart
medical appointments and insurance payments for the kids at a private school.
So, in the chart I created for the kids, I have wording in some colums and
numbers in others. I need to know how to format only the colums that I
select within the table to automatically show in monetary values so that I do
not constantly have to type in the $ sign and decimal point. I have looked
at all of the dropdown menus and somehow cannot find this feature. Is there
or is ther not a way in Word to assign numeric formating to table cells?

 

[Jezebel]

No, Word can't do this unless the number is a field value. Excel might be a
better choice.

 

[Doug Robbins]

In addition to the advice from Jezebel, use an Excel "table" in the Word
document.

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[CKR]

Thanks Doug and Jezebel. I just started in on the Word thing 4 weeks ago and
I'm still a little lost. So, if I do and exel table and then put it in the
word document, can I expand the table as I need? It acctually sounds more
simple to just type in all the $ and decimals. The charts for my students
are updated on a twice weekly basis, and if I can't expand the Exel table
once it is in Word, it may not be worth the hassle.

 

[Jezebel]

Expand in what sense? For most purposes the Excel table inserted in Word
will be just like the Word table, but while you're working on it you're
using Excel not Word. It's size is whatever size you want to display in the
Word document, ultimately limited by the size of the page.

You can also set things up so the the 'table' you see in Word is effectively
a window into a larger spreadsheet. This is useful if there is additional
data you need to make the visible part work, but which the end-users don't
need to see.

 

[diane]

My employer has recently asked me to switch all of the form templates I
created a few years ago from Word Perfect to WORD. In my job, I chart
medical appointments and insurance payments for the kids at a private school.
So, in the chart I created for the kids, I have wording in some colums and
numbers in others. I need to know how to format only the colums that I
select within the table to automatically show in monetary values so that I do
not constantly have to type in the $ sign and decimal point. I have looked
at all of the dropdown menus and somehow cannot find this feature. Is there
or is ther not a way in Word to assign numeric formating to table cells?

 

[macropod]

Hi Diane,

Unless you're using fields (which I wouldn't recommend for simple table
maintenance), there is nothing you can set in Word to force a table cell to
adopt a particular numeric format by default.

Cheers