How do you format numbers within a document?

[Guest]

I want to be able to enter numbers in a word document, and be able to format
them as to commas; e.g. 10,256,312 instead of 10256312. I do not want to
import excel or to use word tables.

Any ideas?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word does not automatically format numbers except by using a field switch,
but for that the number has to be in a field
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

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[Beth Melton]

Type the following: 10,256,312

IOW, in Word you need to type the format you want to see. You can only
utilize a number format for certain Word fields and Word tables does
not allow you to format numbers as you can in Excel.

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