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Copper Contributor

Feb 20, 2020

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Excel for Mac - Point as separator in a German Excel

Hi there! I working with Excel for Mac on my MacBook Air with OS X Catalina. My Excel language is german (I from Austria). Is there any possibility to change the separator from comma to point (witho...

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Riny_van_Eekelen
Feb 20, 2020
Mr_Geo91 In English: Apple symbol top left, System Preferences, Language & Region, Advanced... should bring you to this screen. Here you can set your preferences.

Riny_van_Eekelen

Platinum Contributor

Feb 20, 2020

Mr_Geo91 In English: Apple symbol top left, System Preferences, Language & Region, Advanced... should bring you to this screen. Here you can set your preferences.

Mr_Geo91

Copper Contributor

Feb 20, 2020

Thank you for your effort, but this system change don't work in Excel. Excel is changing 40.5793 to 405.793 😞

Greets!

Riny_van_Eekelen
Platinum Contributor
Feb 20, 2020
Mr_Geo91 How strange. I have tried on both my MBP and MB air (on Catalina). When I change the thousand and/or decimal separator in systems settings, Excel picks-up the new settings after the next start-up.
- Mr_Geo91
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 21, 2020
  Riny_van_Eekelen Hey Riny, now it works. I really don't know why, but after restarting Excel two times the separator was set to a point.
  
  Thanks a lot for your help!
  
  Greets,
  Mr_Geo91