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Font with Monospaced Numbers
Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to
Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced. Thanks for your help. Fred Holmes |
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Try using Courier.
HTH Jason Atlanta, GA -----Original Message----- Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced. Thanks for your help. Fred Holmes . |
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Verdana works well for me. Tahoma works, too, though being more compact,
it's not as easy on the eyes. In article , Fred Holmes wrote: Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. |
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Courier is all monospaced. Don't want that. Want only the numbers
monospaced. Up until now, I was under the impression that Arial had monospaced numbers so that columns would line up. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:45:03 -0800, "Jason Morin" wrote: Try using Courier. HTH Jason Atlanta, GA -----Original Message----- Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced. Thanks for your help. Fred Holmes . |
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Both Tahoma and Verdana have narrow ones ("1") on my machine, and
columns of numbers still don't line up. Windows 2000, SP-4, Excel 2000. Still looking. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:46:00 -0700, JE McGimpsey wrote: Verdana works well for me. Tahoma works, too, though being more compact, it's not as easy on the eyes. In article , Fred Holmes wrote: Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. |
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On checking, it appears that it is only the screen font that has
narrow "1" characters. Printed pages line up columns of numbers OK. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:20:01 -0500, Fred Holmes wrote: Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced. Thanks for your help. Fred Holmes |
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Go figure.
For me Arial lines up fine (XL03, but not XL04) and Verdana and Tahoma line up fine in both XL03 and XL04. All six fonts supplied by MS. In article , Fred Holmes wrote: Both Tahoma and Verdana have narrow ones ("1") on my machine, and columns of numbers still don't line up. Windows 2000, SP-4, Excel 2000. |
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If you change the zoom factor to 100% does it look ok?
If yes, then maybe this post by Debra Dalgleish will help: You can change a registry setting to prevent this from happening (make a backup copy of the registry first): 1. From the Start button, choose Run 2. Type regedit then click OK 3. Click the + sign to the left of HKEY_CURRENT_USER 4. Open Software, Microsoft, Office, 9.0, Excel, Options 5. Choose EditNewDWORD Value 6. Type the name for the DWORD: FontSub 7. Press Enter to complete the renaming 8. Choose EditModify 9. Type 0 as the value, select Decimal, and click OK 10. Close the Registry Editor ===== That 9.0 will vary with your version of excel. Fred Holmes wrote: On checking, it appears that it is only the screen font that has narrow "1" characters. Printed pages line up columns of numbers OK. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:20:01 -0500, Fred Holmes wrote: Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced. Thanks for your help. Fred Holmes -- Dave Peterson |
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Yes, it does look ok with a zoom factor of 100. I'll give the
registry edit a try. Thanks very much. Fred Holmes On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:23:26 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: If you change the zoom factor to 100% does it look ok? If yes, then maybe this post by Debra Dalgleish will help: You can change a registry setting to prevent this from happening (make a backup copy of the registry first): 1. From the Start button, choose Run 2. Type regedit then click OK 3. Click the + sign to the left of HKEY_CURRENT_USER 4. Open Software, Microsoft, Office, 9.0, Excel, Options 5. Choose EditNewDWORD Value 6. Type the name for the DWORD: FontSub 7. Press Enter to complete the renaming 8. Choose EditModify 9. Type 0 as the value, select Decimal, and click OK 10. Close the Registry Editor ===== That 9.0 will vary with your version of excel. Fred Holmes wrote: On checking, it appears that it is only the screen font that has narrow "1" characters. Printed pages line up columns of numbers OK. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:20:01 -0500, Fred Holmes wrote: Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign. I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced. Thanks for your help. Fred Holmes |
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