Greetings,
I am not sure how or why this is affecting your formulas, but the period
"." character is a meaningful character to Calc. It is used in sheet
references, as in:
=Projects.D2
^
Where "Projects" is the sheet name and "D2" is the cell reference in
that sheet.
Something may be confusing Calc, although I agree, it shouldn't be doing
that and I do not know the remedy to prevent it from evaluating 1.5 as
sheet 1, cell 5, which also sounds strange. Maybe that is why you are
getting the errors. Calc expects a column letter before the 5 and it
isn't there. There must be some way to force Calc to assume the
formula's cell is numeric and not a cell reference. Maybe someone else
has the solution. Good luck.
HTH.
Girvin Herr
On 07/29/2017 12:57 PM, bunk3m wrote:
Hello Regina and Jorge,
Thank you for your help and suggestions. I apologize for the delay as
I didn't get the emails until I received the daily digest this
afternoon. I have quoted both your posts in order to keep them
together but this post is getting rather long.
I have tried your suggestions and I'm still unable to get a basic
decimal calculation to work.
But now I am getting "#NAME?" for the cell containing "=1+1.5".
Interestingly enough, if I put "=1+20" it does give me "21" as an answer.
What it doesn't like about the decimal place I don't understand. This
is very strange.
I tried using a comma "," instead as a decimal separator but that
didn't work either.
Perhaps I should delete all the preferences and all the extensions in
the Application Support folder?? Then I would have a "new" install?
Thanks again and regards,
B.
On 29.07.2017 06:00, rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote:
Hi,
bunk3m schrieb:
Thank you Jorge.
I have checked this. The Mac settings are OK. It works with Excel
fine
and Apple Numbers. Mac settings are to show decimal as "."
I have some LO Calc sheets that were created a few years ago that are
OK. It seems to be some change in the last few versions??
Would you know if there are any override settings in the LO
Preferences?
I can't find it if it exists.
There exists the setting in Tools > Options > Language Settings >
Languages, where you can determine the decimal separator key.
In addition there is a setting "Ignore system input language", but I
don't know, what effect it has.
Another setting is in the cell properties in Format > Cells. On the
tab "Numbers" you find top right a "Language" drop-down list. You can
determine the language for numbers independent from UI. Do not use
the "Default - xyz" but select the correct language explicitly.
That the places I know, which might influence it.
Kind regards
Regina
On 29.07.2017 06:00, jrodriguez1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi again:
I suggest to do this in the Language-Language settings:
*User Interface: Select English US
*Locale Settings: English (Canada)
*Decimal Separator Key: uncheck
*Default Currency: Default CAD (English or French)
*Default Language for Documents: A English Canada or French
*Ignore system input language: check
I did this in my LO, and restart LO, and then LO accept " . "
as decimal separator key
I hope this help,
Jorge Rodríguez
El 28/07/2017 a las 18:14, jorge Rodríguez escribió:
Hi:
In LO Preference (Menu-Tools-Options-Language settings), you can
find some ways to customize your settings.
I hope this help,
Jorge Rodríguez
El 28/07/2017 a las 16:11, bunk3m escribió:
Thank you Jorge.
I have checked this. The Mac settings are OK. It works with Excel
fine and Apple Numbers. Mac settings are to show decimal as "."
I have some LO Calc sheets that were created a few years ago that
are OK. It seems to be some change in the last few versions??
Would you know if there are any override settings in the LO
Preferences? I can't find it if it exists.
Thanks again.
B.
On 28.07.2017 17:46, jorge Rodríguez wrote:
Hi :
I don't have a Mac, I use GNU / Linux Ubuntu...but usually
that kind of issues are define with the Operative System. Try to
find how is it define it in you Mac. Probably is as " , " and you
have to change to " . " as you use it in Canada.
Regards,
Jorge Rodríguez
El 28/07/2017 a las 14:50, bunk3m escribió:
I'm having a struggle with Calc. I trying to migrate over from
Excel but have a problem.
When I type [=1+1.5] into a cell, I get "Invalid Name" error. If
I save the file as an xlsx and open in Excel it calculates OK and
give 2.5. If I then open the xlsx in LO, it still says "Invalid
Name".
If I put [=1+1,5], I get ERR: 509. This makes sense since I'm in
Canada and we use "." to separate decimals.
If I put [=1+1] LO correctly calculates "2" with no error.
I have older LO spreadsheets that calculate OK. Every new CALC
spreadsheet has this problem.
I'm not sure how to figure out why I get this error and why LO
won't calculate such a basic equation.
What should I be looking at?
Mac OSX 10.10.5
LO 5.3.4 & 5.4
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Thank you in advance.
B.
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