Why won't a decimal tab work on table columns?

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WeepinAngel

I'm making a powerpoint presentation, and I'm trying to set a decimal tab in
a column for monetary values, and for some reason it stays grayed out and it
doesn't realign the text to the decimal. What's wrong?

Powerpoint 2007
 
This never worked prior to PPT 2007 tables. I doubt, but could be
wrong, that this was addressed in PPT 2007 since it has always
required Word Tables in order to do this.

Not tested, but don't like PPT tables because XL tables and Word
tables are so much better.

Just my 1 cent.

Brian Reilly, MVP
 
WeepinAngel said:
I'm making a powerpoint presentation, and I'm trying to set a decimal tab
in
a column for monetary values, and for some reason it stays grayed out and
it
doesn't realign the text to the decimal. What's wrong?
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Because Microsoft sucks. This is one of my pet peeves. Many PPT tables would
look a gazillion times better if they'd just implement this feature.

Really, it's because the PPT tables don't work the way Word tables do, so
you have to manually add a tab before the text in a cell in a PPT table in
order for it to decimal-align. To do that, put your cursor at the beginning
of the cell and press Ctrl+Tab.

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Echo,
Yup, this is a problem with PPT and Excel. I have a Client who wants
stuff to line up and centered in cell based on something like this. I
was lucky. I just told Naresh Nichani what I wanted and he and his
team wrote some code to do this by adding an apostrophe " ' " based on
charactes.count with some other variations since we had other
variations to consider.

Beats me how it works, but it works, so I went back to sleep.

Brian Reilly, MVP
 
I (fortunately) don't need to use decimal tabs in tables much but I agree
with Echo this feature is long long overdue. Anyway the one time I needed to
I ended up with this fairly silly solution.

I gave all my numbers the correct number of leading zeros and then set just
their text color to background of the table! Surprizingly if you don't have
too many numbers it works quite well!
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