Word Mac OSX message "Invalid Character Setting"

[Patrick Ghyselen]

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

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

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
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+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Parker]

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

Stephe

 

[Klaus Linke]

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