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Enabling Arabic numerals in Excel
I'm hoping someone can help!
I am running MS Office 2003 on Windows XP and have Arabic enabled and working perfectly throughout my Office 2003 applications, with one exception. I cannot get Excel to use Arabic numerals. I have tried everything I've found on this so far - mainly relating to setting the text direction to 'context' in slightly different ways. The principle of this worked in Word, but doesn't work for me in Excel. I am getting somewhat frustrated and hope someone else has an idea of what I am doing wrong! Thanks a million in advance orpheus |
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Please clarify the issue. Arabic numerals 1,2,3,4 are the default. Roman
numerals I,II,III,IV require a function call. -- Gary''s Student "orpheus" wrote: I'm hoping someone can help! I am running MS Office 2003 on Windows XP and have Arabic enabled and working perfectly throughout my Office 2003 applications, with one exception. I cannot get Excel to use Arabic numerals. I have tried everything I've found on this so far - mainly relating to setting the text direction to 'context' in slightly different ways. The principle of this worked in Word, but doesn't work for me in Excel. I am getting somewhat frustrated and hope someone else has an idea of what I am doing wrong! Thanks a million in advance orpheus |
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On 5 Sep 2005 05:04:45 -0700, "orpheus" wrote:
I'm hoping someone can help! I am running MS Office 2003 on Windows XP and have Arabic enabled and working perfectly throughout my Office 2003 applications, with one exception. I cannot get Excel to use Arabic numerals. I have tried everything I've found on this so far - mainly relating to setting the text direction to 'context' in slightly different ways. The principle of this worked in Word, but doesn't work for me in Excel. I am getting somewhat frustrated and hope someone else has an idea of what I am doing wrong! Thanks a million in advance orpheus I don't believe you can do that unless you have a font that has the arabic numerals "slotted into" the usual number slots. You may be able to do this with currency; but you may need to reset your Regional Settings to Arabic. --ron |
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Arabic language actually has its own characters for numbers. I can't
paste them in here, unfortunately, but they are not the standard 1,2,3, etc. These are the characters I can get in Word, but not Excel. Gary''s Student wrote: Please clarify the issue. Arabic numerals 1,2,3,4 are the default. Roman numerals I,II,III,IV require a function call. -- Gary''s Student "orpheus" wrote: I'm hoping someone can help! I am running MS Office 2003 on Windows XP and have Arabic enabled and working perfectly throughout my Office 2003 applications, with one exception. I cannot get Excel to use Arabic numerals. I have tried everything I've found on this so far - mainly relating to setting the text direction to 'context' in slightly different ways. The principle of this worked in Word, but doesn't work for me in Excel. I am getting somewhat frustrated and hope someone else has an idea of what I am doing wrong! Thanks a million in advance orpheus |
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My regional settings have been set. I can switch between the languages
very easily, the only hiccup I have is getting Arabic numerals to display in Excel. Its quite happy to produce text in Arabic though! |
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On 6 Sep 2005 03:13:32 -0700, "orpheus" wrote:
My regional settings have been set. I can switch between the languages very easily, the only hiccup I have is getting Arabic numerals to display in Excel. Its quite happy to produce text in Arabic though! As I wrote, it seems to do this with currency if you set the regional settings to Arabic (first). And then set the currency format in Excel to Arabic. However, in the few arabic fonts I have on my machine, the arabic numerals are not in the "number" slot. I think if you procured an arabic font that had the arabic numerals in the proper slot, what you want would work properly in all cases. --ron |
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I'll give that a bash, thanks. Just so wierd that Word is all set up to
handle the full arabic number set and alphabet and Excel, where numbers are more important, can't handle arabic numbers! Ron Rosenfeld wrote: On 6 Sep 2005 03:13:32 -0700, "orpheus" wrote: My regional settings have been set. I can switch between the languages very easily, the only hiccup I have is getting Arabic numerals to display in Excel. Its quite happy to produce text in Arabic though! As I wrote, it seems to do this with currency if you set the regional settings to Arabic (first). And then set the currency format in Excel to Arabic. However, in the few arabic fonts I have on my machine, the arabic numerals are not in the "number" slot. I think if you procured an arabic font that had the arabic numerals in the proper slot, what you want would work properly in all cases. --ron |
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