On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:43 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Lew Merrick to my mailbox:
> All, > > Engineering data standards for metric values insist on (A) a leading > zero for all numbers with an absolute value less than 1, and (B) no > trailing zeros. It would be very "nice" if OpenOffice would support > such a formatting intrinsically. ??? > > The tradition for English/Imperial numeric values is that the number > of decimal places defines the nominal tolerance assigned to it. Thus, > a value expressed as X.XXX has a different meaning than one expressed > as X.XX or X.X. Further, American standard practice (and, I believe > -- but am not positive, British Standard practice) calls for no > leading zeros. Adherence to these standards helps avoid confusion in > a bi-dimensional world. The American standard defining this is > ASME/ANSI Y14.5. > All these are possible by manipulating the number format, as are less common options like thousands seperators. The documentation is here: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ I'd reply with more precise instructions but you have not said if you are try to apply these to Calc or Writer. For instance in Calc look to Format - Cells in the menu. There is no such menu item in Writer. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
