Joe,
On 07/22/2009 10:23 PM, Lew Merrick wrote:
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. ???
...
I'm afraid I don't understand what you're after, because it seems like
the default number format already does what you describe:
| Entry | Default | 0.### | 0.000 |
|--------+---------+--------+--------|
| 1.234 | 1.23 | 1.234 | 1.234 |
| 0.200 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.200 |
| 0.0412 | 0.04 | 0.041 | 0.041 |
| -0.201 | -0.2 | -0.201 | -0.201 |
Both Calc and Writer support the same format codes, but only Writer
supports alignment on the decimal point.
If you need to show a limited number of decimal places, but no
trailing zeros, you can use the '#' code (column three).
Ah, that's it! You have no idea how long I dug in the manual.
.
Lew
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