I am creating a table and would like to align my data by the decimal point.
I understand that the accounting format will do this, however my data
sometimes includes symbols. For example

1.23
7.94
8.45**
(3.12)
5.88

The accounting format seems to deal well with the (3.12), but I can't get
the decimal places to align for the 8.45**. Any advice??? Also the
accounting format won't allow me to indent. Thanks in advance!