Still harping on my question above...
I figured out that I can edit the display properties, but there's no guidance on how to do this. By trial and error I found that if I put in a "$" symbol and then a bunch of "A" characters that I do get the dollar symbol in front of my number, but decimals don't line up. I will keep trying and maybe putting in a bunch of "N" characters will do number properly, or "D" for decimal, or "F" for float. Or someone could give me a clue