Microsoft KB Archive/51451

Calculation Won’t Correctly Calculate Commas as Decimals

PSS ID Number: Q51451 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

The System can be modified with ResEdit or another editing program to change the decimal symbol to a comma and the comma symbol to a decimal, as per some international standards, by modifying the ITL0 resource of the System.

Word does not use this customization. For example, selecting the following and selecting Calculate from the Utilities menu places 13.5 in the Clipboard as well as in the lower-left corner of the window:

4.5 4.5 4.5

If the system has been modified to use commas instead of decimals, selecting and calculating the following will produce the value 135, instead of 13,5 as expected, effectively ignoring the commas:

4,5 4,5 4,5

Note: Microsoft Word uses decimal-based math regardless of the mode set in the System.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word for the Macintosh versions 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1. This problem was corrected in Word for the Macintosh version 6.0.

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