Tables

Hi Geraldine

Wow, this was a tricky one...sorry I didn't come back to you straight away but I had to have a bit of a play around with this to see what I could come up with.

What I would do it right-align the figures (rather than centre align them), then increase the cell margin on the right hand side of the cells which contain positive numbers.

To change a cell margin:
1. Click inside the cell containing the positive number.
2. Go to Table - Properties, then select the Cell tab.
3. Click the Options button.
4. Remove the tick from the box that says 'Same as the whole table'.
5. Increase the right cell margin (for example, I did this using the example numbers you had provided and by increasing the right margin to 0.35cm I lined up the numbers as you described).

Kind regards
Amanda

Hi Geraldine

One of my colleagues also had the following suggestion, which you could use use by either inserting an Excel worksheet into your document and using that to display the numbers; or if your data is coming from Excel in the first place you could use this to format the numbers first before putting them into Word.

Select the cells containing the figures, and then go to Format - Number and then set a Custom Number format as shown: #,##0 ;(#,##0);0

If you had created an Excel worksheet in Word, you would need to double-click on it first before doing the above.

Amanda