Font with Monospaced Numbers

Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to
Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will
line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a
narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.

I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only
the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced.

Thanks for your help.

Fred Holmes

Try using Courier.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

>-----Original Message-----
>Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif
font, similar to
>Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of
numbers will
>line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet,
the "1" occupies a
>narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.
>
>I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of
those). Only
>the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Fred Holmes
>.
>

Verdana works well for me. Tahoma works, too, though being more compact,
it's not as easy on the eyes.



In article <ibtvu0565dv2grfs8llto89ot2oeh4775b@4ax.com>,
Fred Holmes <fsh@his.com> wrote:

> Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to
> Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will
> line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a
> narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.

Courier is all monospaced. Don't want that. Want only the numbers
monospaced. Up until now, I was under the impression that Arial had
monospaced numbers so that columns would line up.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:45:03 -0800, "Jason Morin"
<jasonjmorin@OPPOSITEOFCOLDmail.com> wrote:

>Try using Courier.
>
>HTH
>Jason
>Atlanta, GA
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif
>font, similar to
>>Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of
>numbers will
>>line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet,
>the "1" occupies a
>>narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.
>>
>>I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of
>those). Only
>>the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced.
>>
>>Thanks for your help.
>>
>>Fred Holmes
>>.
>>

Both Tahoma and Verdana have narrow ones ("1") on my machine, and
columns of numbers still don't line up. Windows 2000, SP-4, Excel
2000.

Still looking.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:46:00 -0700, JE McGimpsey
<jemcgimpsey@mvps.org> wrote:

>Verdana works well for me. Tahoma works, too, though being more compact,
>it's not as easy on the eyes.
>
>
>
>In article <ibtvu0565dv2grfs8llto89ot2oeh4775b@4ax.com>,
> Fred Holmes <fsh@his.com> wrote:
>
>> Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to
>> Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will
>> line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a
>> narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.

On checking, it appears that it is only the screen font that has
narrow "1" characters. Printed pages line up columns of numbers OK.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:20:01 -0500, Fred Holmes <fsh@his.com> wrote:

>Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to
>Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will
>line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a
>narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.
>
>I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only
>the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Fred Holmes

Go figure.

For me Arial lines up fine (XL03, but not XL04) and Verdana and Tahoma
line up fine in both XL03 and XL04.

All six fonts supplied by MS.

In article <cc00v0pcnd3h7g1ilh9f2jokfijt65ksap@4ax.com>,
Fred Holmes <fsh@his.com> wrote:

> Both Tahoma and Verdana have narrow ones ("1") on my machine, and
> columns of numbers still don't line up. Windows 2000, SP-4, Excel
> 2000.

If you change the zoom factor to 100% does it look ok?

If yes, then maybe this post by Debra Dalgleish will help:

You can change a registry setting to prevent this from happening (make a
backup copy of the registry first):

1. From the Start button, choose Run
2. Type regedit then click OK
3. Click the + sign to the left of HKEY_CURRENT_USER
4. Open Software, Microsoft, Office, 9.0, Excel, Options
5. Choose Edit>New>DWORD Value
6. Type the name for the DWORD: FontSub
7. Press Enter to complete the renaming
8. Choose Edit>Modify
9. Type 0 as the value, select Decimal, and click OK
10. Close the Registry Editor

=====
That 9.0 will vary with your version of excel.

Fred Holmes wrote:
>
> On checking, it appears that it is only the screen font that has
> narrow "1" characters. Printed pages line up columns of numbers OK.
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:20:01 -0500, Fred Holmes <fsh@his.com> wrote:
>
> >Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to
> >Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will
> >line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a
> >narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.
> >
> >I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only
> >the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced.
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
> >
> >Fred Holmes

--

Dave Peterson

Yes, it does look ok with a zoom factor of 100. I'll give the
registry edit a try. Thanks very much.

Fred Holmes

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:23:26 -0600, Dave Peterson
<ec35720@netscapeXSPAM.com> wrote:

>If you change the zoom factor to 100% does it look ok?
>
>If yes, then maybe this post by Debra Dalgleish will help:
>
>You can change a registry setting to prevent this from happening (make a
>backup copy of the registry first):
>
>1. From the Start button, choose Run
>2. Type regedit then click OK
>3. Click the + sign to the left of HKEY_CURRENT_USER
>4. Open Software, Microsoft, Office, 9.0, Excel, Options
>5. Choose Edit>New>DWORD Value
>6. Type the name for the DWORD: FontSub
>7. Press Enter to complete the renaming
>8. Choose Edit>Modify
>9. Type 0 as the value, select Decimal, and click OK
>10. Close the Registry Editor
>
>=====
>That 9.0 will vary with your version of excel.
>
>Fred Holmes wrote:
>>
>> On checking, it appears that it is only the screen font that has
>> narrow "1" characters. Printed pages line up columns of numbers OK.
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:20:01 -0500, Fred Holmes <fsh@his.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Can someone recommmend a readily available sans serif font, similar to
>> >Arial, that has monospaced numbers, so that a column of numbers will
>> >line up. When I use Arial in an Excel worksheet, the "1" occupies a
>> >narrow space, and causes a column of numbers to misalign.
>> >
>> >I don't want a totally monospaced font (I have one of those). Only
>> >the numbers, not text/letters should be monospaced.
>> >
>> >Thanks for your help.
>> >
>> >Fred Holmes