Hi mkraft,

The '\#' tells Word what type of formatting switch it is dealing with. What follows after the space is the switch format.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"mkraft" wrote in message ...
Look at the help topic "Numeric Picture (\#) field switch". For the
examples you
give, the field might look like

{= SUM(ABOVE) \# #,###.00}

Thanks. Why is there a space between the first two '#' characters?