Working in Word for Mac OSX, when I try to make a Sum or
Average in a table I get the message "Invalid Character
setting"

Does someone has a solution for this problem?

Patrick

Hi Patrick:

I have no idea and I have never seen the message.

Can you paste that table into a document and email it to me please. (Don't
send the whole document or I will crawl through the phone lines and thump
you :-))

You will need a password to get an attachment through my firewall: yours is
Patric&T0axEut - just paste that into the Subject line.

Cheers

> Working in Word for Mac OSX, when I try to make a Sum or
> Average in a table I get the message "Invalid Character
> setting"
>
> Does someone has a solution for this problem?
>
> Patrick

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john[at]mcghie-information.com.au

It is 2 years since Patrick submitted his question, but I have the same
problem. I created several tables in Word X for Mac and the first time
I used the 'Formula', 'Sum above' function it worked fine. After I
changed some of the figures in the tables and tried to sum the columns
again, I got the message 'invalid character setting' in place of the
sum totals. Was John able to give Patrick a solution to this problem?

Stephen


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Hi Parker,

Perhaps it's the decimal separator?
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284921

If that's not it, do you just have numbers in the column cells, and {
=SUM(ABOVE) } in the bottom cell (view field codes with Option+F9 if
necessary), or something more complicated?

Regards,
Klaus


"Parker" <Parker.1wa7fa[at]nomx.macosx.com> wrote:
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> It is 2 years since Patrick submitted his question, but I have the same
> problem. I created several tables in Word X for Mac and the first time
> I used the 'Formula', 'Sum above' function it worked fine. After I
> changed some of the figures in the tables and tried to sum the columns
> again, I got the message 'invalid character setting' in place of the
> sum totals. Was John able to give Patrick a solution to this problem?
>
> Stephen
>
>
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