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Decimal Points and comma separators
I work with very exact numbers, sometimes up to 7 significant figures after
the decimal point, and I copy/paste this numbers from another program. My problem is that my comma separator appears as a decimal point and my decimal point is a comma, and sometimes the people i hand out this info to, get all mixed up and are always calling me back.... How can i change my number format so that my decimal point appears as a decimal point and not a comma? or, how do i make my thousand separator be a comma and not a decimal point? or, How can i solve them both? |
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Decimal Points and comma separators
This is a windows setting.
Control panel|regional settings|regional options tab|customize button Change the decimal and digit grouping symbols. Miguel Gamez wrote: I work with very exact numbers, sometimes up to 7 significant figures after the decimal point, and I copy/paste this numbers from another program. My problem is that my comma separator appears as a decimal point and my decimal point is a comma, and sometimes the people i hand out this info to, get all mixed up and are always calling me back.... How can i change my number format so that my decimal point appears as a decimal point and not a comma? or, how do i make my thousand separator be a comma and not a decimal point? or, How can i solve them both? -- Dave Peterson |
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Decimal Points and comma separators
You must be sharing this info on paper, right?
I would have guessed that if you shared the file, then the recipient's windows setting would have done the conversion without you knowing. Miguel Gamez wrote: I work with very exact numbers, sometimes up to 7 significant figures after the decimal point, and I copy/paste this numbers from another program. My problem is that my comma separator appears as a decimal point and my decimal point is a comma, and sometimes the people i hand out this info to, get all mixed up and are always calling me back.... How can i change my number format so that my decimal point appears as a decimal point and not a comma? or, how do i make my thousand separator be a comma and not a decimal point? or, How can i solve them both? -- Dave Peterson |
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