Hyphen Can't Be Used As Decimal Align Charact

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:24 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Characters do not align correctly when the customer uses a hyphen (-) as the Decimal Align character. Solutions: It is possible to use a dash or a hyphen for the align character. To do this, the user needs to assign the hyphen as the Decimal Align character (Shift-F8, 4, 3, -). When working in the document, the user will need to enter a hard hyphen (Home, -), not a hyphen, for the decimal alignment to work properly. A hard hyphen does not need to be used when assigning the Decimal Align character. To make sure the user has entered hard hyphens, check Reveal Codes. A hard hyphen appears in Reveal Codes without square brackets - and a normal hyphen appears with square brackets [-]. Also, if a customer is working in a table with a column that is decimal aligned and enters negative numbers that have a hyphen after the number (e.g., 50-), the numbers can be right aligned by replacing the hyphens with hard hyphens.

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