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How to change the style used to separate thousands or decimals on Office 365 Essentials
Dear Sirs,
I use dot instead of comma to separate the thousands in my country. In Excel from my Office 365 Essentials I could not find how to change this default. I can only activate or deactivate the comma for thousands.
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- SergeiBaklanDiamond Contributor
I guess for Office 365 Business Essentials there are only Web applications (Excel Online), if so that's tenant admin shall change locale for OneDrive.
- HolgerKasternCopper Contributor
We have same problem here. in Germany it is 1.000,00 and not the english version 1,000.00 .
In local Windows 10 Clients , local Excel365 it is displayed correctly. If you open same file in Excel-Web, it is displayed in english form.
Our Users (one-drive-data....) are all localized in Germany...so that does not help.- NauthstarIron Contributor
Hi, in England we had the same problem. We have dates in Excel that are in English and if we upload to our users (in England) who use Excel for web, the dates are displayed in American format.
To change this, you have to log into your Office 365 WEB version of Excel and make the changes in the settings there. The other issue we had was that our WEB version of Excel Office 365 was set up by our IT team who had locked ordinary users out from making such changes so, the option was 'Greyed-out' to us. Systems had to make the changes as we didn't have the access to carry the change out.
Hope this helps.
- NauthstarIron Contributor
- David_WilmshurstCopper Contributor
Nauthstar - Your screenshot looks just like what I want... but I cannot work out how to get there!
In the English version of the Systeme Internationale (SI), we are required to use a non-breaking space to group thousands. Commas or points are not allowed.