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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 22 15:07:30 -0700 2006 ------- 1) I've used this feature in ms excel 95 and probably even earlier versions. OOo is really deficient in letting this one slip to such low priority. Please raise the urgency! 2) The competing product suppresses leading digits when rounding to scientific notation and this isn't always the nicest way to show things. What excel will NOT let you do is ask for engineering notation with a specified number of significant digits. For example, instead of seeing 1.2E3, 12.3E3, 123.4E3, 1.2E6 it is usually better to see 1.23E3, 12.3E3, 123.E3, 1.23E6 since this maintains the same accuracy throughout, i.e. 3 significant digits in this example - which is what we engineers really need. 3) The competing product does not allow suppression of the redundant trailing E+0 or E00 or whatever. This would be really nice. 4) It would be great to have a 'general engineering' format, similar to the excel's general format but which switches to engineering format for numbers between -1.0 and +1.0, numbers -1E3 and under and numbers 1E3 and greater. Note that excel's general format already shows small numbers (below about 1E-5) in scientific format instead of just 0 as in OOo 2.02. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
