![]() Miraculously, all the dollar signs lined up, without a single wobble, for the different font and sizes. Then, on the Alignment tab, I changed the Horizontal alignment to General, and clicked OK. I clicked the button at the bottom right of the Alignment group on the Ribbon’s Home tab, to open the Format Cells dialog box. I checked the horizontal alignment for the cells, and discovered that my client had formatted them as Right aligned. The dollar signs aren’t supposed to line up in that format, so it’s much less stressful.įinally, this weekend, after another attempt at lining up the dollar signs, I found the solution to the wobbly Accounting symbols. So, I learned to live with the problem, and tried to convince the client to use Currency format instead. Even fist shaking didn’t help - very odd! ![]() I’ve spent way too much time trying to fix the problem, with custom formatting, different fonts, and yelling. I added the blue line to make it easier to see the variations in column B. It’s not much, but it looks sloppy, and some fonts show the effect more obviously than others. However, if the numbers are different lengths, we have trouble aligning Excel currency symbols.įor example, in the screen shot below, the $ sign in cell B4 is a bit to the right of the symbol in B5. If all the numbers are the same length, the currency symbols line up nicely. ![]() Every now and then I get a workbook from a client with numbers in Accounting format. ![]()
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