Microsoft KB Archive/36487

Word: Decimal Tabs Inside Tables Allow Alignment of Numbers

PSS ID Number: Q36487 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SYMPTOMS =

When you place a decimal tab within a table, with no other tabs set in that cell, Microsoft Word for the Macintosh automatically moves the insertion point to that tab for more easily entering numbers.

= CAUSE =

By design Word adds an invisible tab character to the beginning of the cell.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Note that when data is imported from Microsoft Excel, by default the data’s paragraph format is right-aligned (default Excel format for numbers). Therefore, when you insert a decimal tab into a table of cells imported from Excel, the tab may not automatically align until you apply left alignment to those cells.

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