topic Change commas to points in table of shape file, ArcMap in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/change-commas-to-points-in-table-of-shape-file/m-p/289036#M9985 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have created a shapefile with quite some information in the attribute table, but have used commas in stead of points which is required for my further work ( I will rasterize it later to use as model input). As the table columns are formatted as Float (numbers), they cannot take points in them, and I dont manage to change the format.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any suggestions?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:25:38 GMT NilsKavli 2013-02-21T06:25:38Z Change commas to points in table of shape file, ArcMap https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/change-commas-to-points-in-table-of-shape-file/m-p/289036#M9985 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have created a shapefile with quite some information in the attribute table, but have used commas in stead of points which is required for my further work ( I will rasterize it later to use as model input). As the table columns are formatted as Float (numbers), they cannot take points in them, and I dont manage to change the format.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any suggestions?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:25:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/change-commas-to-points-in-table-of-shape-file/m-p/289036#M9985 NilsKavli 2013-02-21T06:25:38Z Re: Change commas to points in table of shape file, ArcMap https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/change-commas-to-points-in-table-of-shape-file/m-p/289037#M9986 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>As the field is a numeric field, ArcMap is not actually storing the commas as part of the value. If you right click the field name &gt; Properties... &gt; Numeric &gt; Do you have Show thousands separators checked?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Melanie S.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:07:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/change-commas-to-points-in-table-of-shape-file/m-p/289037#M9986 MelanieSummers 2013-02-21T14:07:02Z