Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Please download and install http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/numbertext-1 I needed to format a number to written (long-hand) for a check. This did produce what was needed. When using MONEYTEXT(), reference your cell with the number in it. Although the command asks for more, it is not required. It appears to format from the default languages settings. Make sure your language settings are correct. I did not test NUMBERTEXT, also within this extension. Hope this helps. Paul On 2/24/2014 1:15 PM, e-letter wrote: On 23/02/2014, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Tom, please do NOT CC me directly, I am on the list and certainly don't need to see your messages twice. On 2014-02-22 7:01 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: As the User Support mailing list for a gateway project i think it's fairly good that we help people to learn that there are alternatives to top-posting without making anyone feel as unwelcome as certain other projects like to make their new users feel. Gratuitous, contradictory nonsense. That is hilarious coming from you Tom, since: 1. you never, EVER bottom/inline post, and This is not the case historically when corresponding to programmers on their list(s) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
That extension worked for me both for NumberText and MoneyText. In my previous post I'd was talking about version 0.9.4. I didn't realise there was a newer version! Alex On Tuesday 25 Feb 2014 13:45:41 Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Please download and install http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/numbertext-1 I needed to format a number to written (long-hand) for a check. This did produce what was needed. When using MONEYTEXT(), reference your cell with the number in it. Although the command asks for more, it is not required. It appears to format from the default languages settings. Make sure your language settings are correct. I did not test NUMBERTEXT, also within this extension. Hope this helps. Paul On 2/24/2014 1:15 PM, e-letter wrote: On 23/02/2014, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Tom, please do NOT CC me directly, I am on the list and certainly don't need to see your messages twice. On 2014-02-22 7:01 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: As the User Support mailing list for a gateway project i think it's fairly good that we help people to learn that there are alternatives to top-posting without making anyone feel as unwelcome as certain other projects like to make their new users feel. Gratuitous, contradictory nonsense. That is hilarious coming from you Tom, since: 1. you never, EVER bottom/inline post, and This is not the case historically when corresponding to programmers on their list(s) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky p_mirow...@bentaxna.comwrote: Please download and install http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/numbertext-1 Very nice. I've installed it. If I could change the extension (maybe I will try) I would make optional or remove the name of the currency and have first letter of initial word capitalized or possibly first letter of each word. If I wish to write $35.50 I would write Thirty-five dollars and fifty cents, not Thirty-five US dollars and fifty cents. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On February 25, 2014 1:57:49 PM PST, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Paul D. Mirowsky p_mirow...@bentaxna.comwrote: Please download and install http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/numbertext-1 Very nice. I've installed it. If I could change the extension (maybe I will try) I would make optional or remove the name of the currency and have first letter of initial word capitalized or possibly first letter of each word. If I wish to write $35.50 I would write Thirty-five dollars and fifty cents, not Thirty-five US dollars and fifty cents. I believe the traditional way to write this on a check is, Thirty-five and 50/100 dollars -- Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:09 PM, James E Lang jim+...@lang.hm wrote: I believe the traditional way to write this on a check is, Thirty-five and 50/100 dollars Good point. That's certainly the way I've done it. And the word dollars is preprinted on the checks I've used so the program output for check printing should only be Thirty-five and 50/10. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On 23/02/2014, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Tom, please do NOT CC me directly, I am on the list and certainly don't need to see your messages twice. On 2014-02-22 7:01 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: As the User Support mailing list for a gateway project i think it's fairly good that we help people to learn that there are alternatives to top-posting without making anyone feel as unwelcome as certain other projects like to make their new users feel. Gratuitous, contradictory nonsense. That is hilarious coming from you Tom, since: 1. you never, EVER bottom/inline post, and This is not the case historically when corresponding to programmers on their list(s) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Dennis, It looks to me that you're asking how to convert a number to the words that are spoken to say that number. You've asked how to convert a number ... to text. People familiar with programming/macros and data types will read that and think of something different than creating the words to speak the number. I found a few solutions, links below, from different sources that take a number and write out the words to speak the number. None however are solutions written for Calc. The links do provide solutions how to convert a number to words with other programs. The logic will be the same in Calc but the syntax will need to be converted to Calc. Perhaps someone familiar with programming can assist you to create a Calc function that does what you wish. http://delphi.about.com/od/objectpascalide/a/curr2words.htm http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213360 http://www.dbase.com/codelib/Plus/dUFLPPlus_AA.zip this last is a small code library written for a product called dBASE. In this library are routines called Cash2Check, Num2Words, and Thou2Words. The logic of the three routines is used together to convert a number to the words to say the number. I can attest to the 1995 (approximately) version of this function working correctly. -Alan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
2014-02-23 4:08 GMT+01:00 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org: On 02/22/2014 04:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: It is called bottom or in-line posting, and is preferred by the more technically inclined. Bottom and Top posting seems to be a personal preference often pursued with religious zeal (as you mention below). While quickly browsing, top posting is easier to follow unless your email client hides all previous posts for you. I installed an extension to do this in Thunderbird; without it, bottom posting is almost impossible to follow. The extension makes it easy to follow ongoing conversations regardless, but is annoying if you were not following things from the start and want to catch-up :-( I don't use an email client, but the Gmail web interface also hides lines from previous posts. They are however easy to view if you need to. Unfortunately, top-posting seems to be the default mode for Gmail, but it's easy to work around. in-line posting seems to be assumed for Thunderbird. Makes the response more like a conversation. It is primarily Outlook users who prefer blind top-posting (ie, quoting the entire message they are replying to and adding their comment at the top). You must work hard to get Outlook to do anything else. I know you used to be able to convince Outlook to do otherwise. I don't even know if you can still do that. Every time MS releases a new version of something these days, it usually feels like I need to relearn the product. It annoys me. My limited exposure says that every large company using Outlook likely works in this way. Most people who are rabidly anti bottom/inline posting will go out of their way to complain about how bad bottom posting is, and will invariably use BLIND bottom posting - quoting the ENTIRE message ABOVE your comment, which is admittedly way WORSE than blind top-posting - as examples of why bottom/inline posting is bad. They almost always simply refuse to even acknowledge the difference between BLIND bottom posting, and inline posting (quoting only the relevant portion, and putting your responses/comments AFTER the relevant quoted text, which is much cleaner and easier to read than even top-posting, mainly because you can clearly see the full context). You can make everyone angry and happy by doing both. Place your entire message at both the top and the bottom :-) And in-line. The angrier the better… Johnny Rosenberg -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Tom, please do NOT CC me directly, I am on the list and certainly don't need to see your messages twice. On 2014-02-22 7:01 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: As the User Support mailing list for a gateway project i think it's fairly good that we help people to learn that there are alternatives to top-posting without making anyone feel as unwelcome as certain other projects like to make their new users feel. That is hilarious coming from you Tom, since: 1. you never, EVER bottom/inline post, and 2. you are a perfect example of what I meant in my comment about people who use examples of BLIND bottom posting as why bottom/inline posting it is bad. I will admit one thing: blind bottom posting is much worse than blind top posting. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On 2014-02-23 10:40 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't use an email client, but the Gmail web interface also hides lines from previous posts. Lol! Thanks for the laugh Johnny... In case you are wondering, the funny bit is how quickly you disproved your very first comment. It is impossible to read email without using an email client. In your case, it just happens to be a web browser. I ceased worrying about this controversy, but when the topic comes up, I'll chime in to keep the blind top post proponents honest. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
2014-02-23 18:05 GMT+01:00 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org: On 2014-02-23 10:40 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't use an email client, but the Gmail web interface also hides lines from previous posts. Lol! Thanks for the laugh Johnny... childishness Don't thank me, I hate when people do that. Just give me money. The more, the merrier… In case you are wondering, the funny bit is how quickly you disproved your very first comment. No, I just wrote in a foreign language. I don't have a clue what at least half of what I write really means. I just pour out some English looking words everywhere, hoping someone will understand what I'm trying to say. Obviously I fail every time, so I guess I should just stop writing, especially since I don't even use LibreOffice anymore… It is impossible to read email without using an email client. In your case, it just happens to be a web browser. He he he… you are worse than me… Of course I didn't mean exactly what I wrote word by word, but since my English sucks (extremely bad) I tried to make it simple. Of course I meant that I use the Gmail web interface rather than a dedicated email client. Using the web interface, I guess I use an email client that is located somewhere else than on my own HDD, so if I switch browser I still get the same user interface. I don't know if this means exactly that I wanted to say in my own language, but I guess it's more correct than what you will get if I write it in my own language and you translate it with Google Translate or similar… The web browser I use is Opera, which indeed also includes an email client (M2), which I however don't use (anymore). I used it many years ago and it was great, but there was something, I don't remember what, that made me abandon M2. I guess it didn't support some ”important” Gmail feature or something. Of course you could have avoided all the text above if you just didn't pretend that you didn't know what I meant in the first place. It seems like everybody else understood, despite my terrible English, which probably is worse than anything you ever saw before in your life. Ever. Ever ever ever. Very ever. Kind of. Well, not as bad that I can't make it any worser… (ha ha ha… – oops… that laugh was obviously in my language, sorry for that, because I can't go back and correct it, can I…? :P ) I ceased worrying about this controversy, but when the topic comes up, I'll chime in to keep the blind top post proponents honest. Among other things, as it seems. /childishness Johnny Rosenberg P.S. Google Translate was used several times when I wrote the crap above, and still I didn't get it right… I know, nobody wants to know, but those didn't read this anyway. D.S. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: [...] P.S. Google Translate was used several times when I wrote the crap above, and still I didn't get it right… I know, nobody wants to know, but those didn't read this anyway. D.S. whatever, your English is pretty much as good as the native speakers' on this list. (and you know it.g) F. -- Felmon Davis Wishing without work is like fishing without bait. -- Frank Tyger -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Hi :) Just forwarding Alex's excellent answer jic Dennis is not subscribed to this mailing list. Judging from the 10hours with no response that seems quite likely. Errr, actually we didn't get Alex's link on-list but hopefully he can do Reply to all to make sure Dennis and all do get it this time. Regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 23:57, Alex McMurchy mcmurchy1917-libreoff...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Try this link. Specifically the function getAmountInWord in the described macro. Don't try the extension. Alex On Friday 21 Feb 2014 15:29:18 Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's an unusual problem that looks a lot like a fairly frequently asked question. Your question has an extra twist which we didn't notice earlier. I am not sure if there is an easy way to convert numbers to words. ie 2,000 to Two thousand So far people have been talking about how to make the numbers look like numbers still but just be unable to perform calculations using them. It's good for telephone numbers, zip-codes and that sort of thing. There might be an Extension (what other people call Add-ons or Plug-ins) to do that in LibreOffice itself or there might be a separate app (or program) that can do this outside of LibreOffice. Our Extensions page is here; http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/ Most are written by 3rd parties but some are very popular. There are also Extensions written for OpenOffice which might still work with LO or it might be easy to contact their devs to ask them if they could update it for LO. Sorry this isn't very helpful! Apols and regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 13:28, C grx...@y7mail.com wrote: Hi there! You can convert a number in text if you place an apostrophe sign before your number (e.g. '123). Also, you can select desired cells and then use Format menuCellsNumbers tabCategoryText OK. Cristi On 21/02/2014 09:55, Dennis Regan wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN'T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
2014-02-22 11:39 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Just forwarding Alex's excellent answer jic Dennis is not subscribed to this mailing list. Judging from the 10hours with no response that seems quite likely. Errr, actually we didn't get Alex's link on-list but hopefully he can do Reply to all to make sure Dennis and all do get it this time. Regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 23:57, Alex McMurchy mcmurchy1917-libreoff...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Try this link. Specifically the function getAmountInWord in the described macro. Don't try the extension. Alex On Friday 21 Feb 2014 15:29:18 Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's an unusual problem that looks a lot like a fairly frequently asked question. Your question has an extra twist which we didn't notice earlier. I am not sure if there is an easy way to convert numbers to words. ie 2,000 to Two thousand So far people have been talking about how to make the numbers look like numbers still but just be unable to perform calculations using them. It's good for telephone numbers, zip-codes and that sort of thing. There might be an Extension (what other people call Add-ons or Plug-ins) to do that in LibreOffice itself or there might be a separate app (or program) that can do this outside of LibreOffice. Our Extensions page is here; http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/ Most are written by 3rd parties but some are very popular. There are also Extensions written for OpenOffice which might still work with LO or it might be easy to contact their devs to ask them if they could update it for LO. Sorry this isn't very helpful! Apols and regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 13:28, C grx...@y7mail.com wrote: Hi there! You can convert a number in text if you place an apostrophe sign before your number (e.g. '123). Also, you can select desired cells and then use Format menuCellsNumbers tabCategoryText OK. Cristi On 21/02/2014 09:55, Dennis Regan wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN'T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan Off topic, but I'm just so surprised that nobody complained about shouting (using upper case letters)… and about top posting. Johnny Rosenberg -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Off topic, but I'm just so surprised that nobody complained about shouting (using upper case letters)… and about top posting. Johnny Rosenberg Well, as to the shouting, I guess I kind of assumed the OP was new to this, and didn't want to criticize, but you're right, somebody should have corrected him. Top posting is the preferred way to reply. At least for me. I really don't understand why some people insist on bottom posting and making the lives of everyone reading the thread more difficult, but that's just my opinion. So far this group hasn't tried to enforce a One Way Of Doing Things (tm) on anybody, unlike some other groups I am subscribed to. Paul On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:51:17 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-02-22 11:39 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Just forwarding Alex's excellent answer jic Dennis is not subscribed to this mailing list. Judging from the 10hours with no response that seems quite likely. Errr, actually we didn't get Alex's link on-list but hopefully he can do Reply to all to make sure Dennis and all do get it this time. Regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 23:57, Alex McMurchy mcmurchy1917-libreoff...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Try this link. Specifically the function getAmountInWord in the described macro. Don't try the extension. Alex On Friday 21 Feb 2014 15:29:18 Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's an unusual problem that looks a lot like a fairly frequently asked question. Your question has an extra twist which we didn't notice earlier. I am not sure if there is an easy way to convert numbers to words. ie 2,000 to Two thousand So far people have been talking about how to make the numbers look like numbers still but just be unable to perform calculations using them. It's good for telephone numbers, zip-codes and that sort of thing. There might be an Extension (what other people call Add-ons or Plug-ins) to do that in LibreOffice itself or there might be a separate app (or program) that can do this outside of LibreOffice. Our Extensions page is here; http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/ Most are written by 3rd parties but some are very popular. There are also Extensions written for OpenOffice which might still work with LO or it might be easy to contact their devs to ask them if they could update it for LO. Sorry this isn't very helpful! Apols and regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 13:28, C grx...@y7mail.com wrote: Hi there! You can convert a number in text if you place an apostrophe sign before your number (e.g. '123). Also, you can select desired cells and then use Format menuCellsNumbers tabCategoryText OK. Cristi On 21/02/2014 09:55, Dennis Regan wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN'T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan Off topic, but I'm just so surprised that nobody complained about shouting (using upper case letters)… and about top posting. Johnny Rosenberg -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
2014-02-22 21:32 GMT+01:00 Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za: Off topic, but I'm just so surprised that nobody complained about shouting (using upper case letters)… and about top posting. Johnny Rosenberg Well, as to the shouting, I guess I kind of assumed the OP was new to this, and didn't want to criticize, but you're right, somebody should have corrected him. Well, let's say ”informed him”, in a nice way, of course. Top posting is the preferred way to reply. At least for me. I really don't understand why some people insist on bottom posting and making the lives of everyone reading the thread more difficult, but that's just my opinion. So far this group hasn't tried to enforce a One Way Of Doing Things (tm) on anybody, unlike some other groups I am subscribed to. I'm subscribed to a few groups myself, maybe I confused this one with the Apache OpenOffice one, but most of them seems to prefer everything but top posting. Personally I prefer this way, I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm doing it right now… Johnny Rosenberg Paul On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:51:17 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-02-22 11:39 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Just forwarding Alex's excellent answer jic Dennis is not subscribed to this mailing list. Judging from the 10hours with no response that seems quite likely. Errr, actually we didn't get Alex's link on-list but hopefully he can do Reply to all to make sure Dennis and all do get it this time. Regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 23:57, Alex McMurchy mcmurchy1917-libreoff...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Try this link. Specifically the function getAmountInWord in the described macro. Don't try the extension. Alex On Friday 21 Feb 2014 15:29:18 Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's an unusual problem that looks a lot like a fairly frequently asked question. Your question has an extra twist which we didn't notice earlier. I am not sure if there is an easy way to convert numbers to words. ie 2,000 to Two thousand So far people have been talking about how to make the numbers look like numbers still but just be unable to perform calculations using them. It's good for telephone numbers, zip-codes and that sort of thing. There might be an Extension (what other people call Add-ons or Plug-ins) to do that in LibreOffice itself or there might be a separate app (or program) that can do this outside of LibreOffice. Our Extensions page is here; http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/ Most are written by 3rd parties but some are very popular. There are also Extensions written for OpenOffice which might still work with LO or it might be easy to contact their devs to ask them if they could update it for LO. Sorry this isn't very helpful! Apols and regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 13:28, C grx...@y7mail.com wrote: Hi there! You can convert a number in text if you place an apostrophe sign before your number (e.g. '123). Also, you can select desired cells and then use Format menuCellsNumbers tabCategoryText OK. Cristi On 21/02/2014 09:55, Dennis Regan wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN'T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan Off topic, but I'm just so surprised that nobody complained about shouting (using upper case letters)… and about top posting. Johnny Rosenberg -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On 2014-02-22 4:28 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm subscribed to a few groups myself, maybe I confused this one with the Apache OpenOffice one, but most of them seems to prefer everything but top posting. Personally I prefer this way, I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm doing it right now… It is called bottom or in-line posting, and is preferred by the more technically inclined. It is primarily Outlook users who prefer blind top-posting (ie, quoting the entire message they are replying to and adding their comment at the top). Most people who are rabidly anti bottom/inline posting will go out of their way to complain about how bad bottom posting is, and will invariably use BLIND bottom posting - quoting the ENTIRE message ABOVE your comment, which is admittedly way WORSE than blind top-posting - as examples of why bottom/inline posting is bad. They almost always simply refuse to even acknowledge the difference between BLIND bottom posting, and inline posting (quoting only the relevant portion, and putting your responses/comments AFTER the relevant quoted text, which is much cleaner and easier to read than even top-posting, mainly because you can clearly see the full context). -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Here we go again. There is top-posting, which is, in general, a good thing, and is preferred by most email users, including the technically inclined, like myself. Its primary advantage is that it is a great courtesy to the readers of email threads, who can quickly assess a contribution to the thread for relevance to them. A secondary advantage for the poster is that it increases the likelihood that the new material will actually be read, or at least skimmed. There is in-line posting, which is necessary when you need to reply to specific points in a previous post. You can put your comments into the immediate context to which they apply. This is also a good thing, if the circumstances require it. Then there is bottom-posting. It's a kind of virus that contaminates, primarily, open-source mailing lists. When a poster is infected he (yes, overwhelmingly, he) is overcome with the urge to tell people what to do. He is filled with a (completely spurious) sense of righteousness. He is a rebel, he is liberated, he carries the banner of freedom (free as in speech) against the grinding capitalist forces of oppression and regimentation. Therefore, you MUST DO AS YOU ARE TOLD. And so the champions of freedom become tuppenny Trotskys, low-rent Lenins, and we can say a quiet prayer of thanks that their influence extends no farther than the occasional mailing-list. How do I know? I've been there. I am now afflicted by a complementary virus. I am equally righteous and insufferable. I know, I know. But my desire is to see all of this nonsense fade away into an easy-going environment of live and let live. Bakunin before Lenin, and classical small-l liberalism before either. Peter West And he said to them, Do you not yet understand? On 23 Feb 2014, at 7:41 am, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-02-22 4:28 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm subscribed to a few groups myself, maybe I confused this one with the Apache OpenOffice one, but most of them seems to prefer everything but top posting. Personally I prefer this way, I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm doing it right now… It is called bottom or in-line posting, and is preferred by the more technically inclined. It is primarily Outlook users who prefer blind top-posting (ie, quoting the entire message they are replying to and adding their comment at the top). Most people who are rabidly anti bottom/inline posting will go out of their way to complain about how bad bottom posting is, and will invariably use BLIND bottom posting - quoting the ENTIRE message ABOVE your comment, which is admittedly way WORSE than blind top-posting - as examples of why bottom/inline posting is bad. They almost always simply refuse to even acknowledge the difference between BLIND bottom posting, and inline posting (quoting only the relevant portion, and putting your responses/comments AFTER the relevant quoted text, which is much cleaner and easier to read than even top-posting, mainly because you can clearly see the full context). -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
On 02/22/2014 04:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: It is called bottom or in-line posting, and is preferred by the more technically inclined. Bottom and Top posting seems to be a personal preference often pursued with religious zeal (as you mention below). While quickly browsing, top posting is easier to follow unless your email client hides all previous posts for you. I installed an extension to do this in Thunderbird; without it, bottom posting is almost impossible to follow. The extension makes it easy to follow ongoing conversations regardless, but is annoying if you were not following things from the start and want to catch-up :-( in-line posting seems to be assumed for Thunderbird. Makes the response more like a conversation. It is primarily Outlook users who prefer blind top-posting (ie, quoting the entire message they are replying to and adding their comment at the top). You must work hard to get Outlook to do anything else. I know you used to be able to convince Outlook to do otherwise. I don't even know if you can still do that. Every time MS releases a new version of something these days, it usually feels like I need to relearn the product. It annoys me. My limited exposure says that every large company using Outlook likely works in this way. Most people who are rabidly anti bottom/inline posting will go out of their way to complain about how bad bottom posting is, and will invariably use BLIND bottom posting - quoting the ENTIRE message ABOVE your comment, which is admittedly way WORSE than blind top-posting - as examples of why bottom/inline posting is bad. They almost always simply refuse to even acknowledge the difference between BLIND bottom posting, and inline posting (quoting only the relevant portion, and putting your responses/comments AFTER the relevant quoted text, which is much cleaner and easier to read than even top-posting, mainly because you can clearly see the full context). You can make everyone angry and happy by doing both. Place your entire message at both the top and the bottom :-) -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
I think the formula you want is TEXT. I'm not too sure on the format parameter to this function, haven't checked that, but for me a format string of #.## worked fine for a number with a decimal place. You should be able to find further details of the format string in the help or online. So, for example, I put the number 1234.5 in cell A1, then in cell B1 I put the formula '=TEXT(A1,#.##)', and now cell B1 holds the text string 1234.5. I hope this is what you were looking for. Paul On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 02:55:53 -0500 Dennis Regan dennispreg...@hotmail.com wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN’T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Hi Dennis, What format will the numbers themselves be entered in? In addition to TEXT you can also use the DOLLAR function, which will use your localization information to format the number as text string with a currency symbol, thousands separator and decimal places. To use the TEXT function, you can use a format string of $#,#.## to get those things as well. I know of no way to get the number written out as words, at least not with stock Calc. This question (see URL [1]) on ask.libreoffice.org discusses this, and three possible solutions are given: * This add-on (see URL [2]), but it seems that it is no longer maintained, and may not work for the latest versions of LO. I haven't tried it, so you'll have to see for yourself. * There is also mention of this Microsoft article that gives some macro code for Excel (see URL [3]), which presumably could be converted to work with Calc. * Some code is also given, presumably for LO Basic, but it seems to be for Indian currency. This could probably also be converted to your currency of choice. [1]http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/1194/convert-numbers-to-english-words/ [2]http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/numbertext-1 [3]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213360 So in short there seems to be no easy way of doing this. You might find that the extension works for you, or you might have to write a macro to do this, using one of the two examples as a starting point. Hope this helped. Paul On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:13:58 -0500 Dennis Regan dennispreg...@hotmail.com wrote: FOR CLARITY TO MY SPREADSHEET READERS I WOULD LIKE NUMBERS TO READ IN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS: +) $2,000 +) TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IS THIS POSSIBLE? -Original Message- From: Paul Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 6:04 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: dennispreg...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? I think the formula you want is TEXT. I'm not too sure on the format parameter to this function, haven't checked that, but for me a format string of #.## worked fine for a number with a decimal place. You should be able to find further details of the format string in the help or online. So, for example, I put the number 1234.5 in cell A1, then in cell B1 I put the formula '=TEXT(A1,#.##)', and now cell B1 holds the text string 1234.5. I hope this is what you were looking for. Paul On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 02:55:53 -0500 Dennis Regan dennispreg...@hotmail.com wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN’T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Hi there! You can convert a number in text if you place an apostrophe sign before your number (e.g. '123). Also, you can select desired cells and then use Format menuCellsNumbers tabCategoryText OK. Cristi On 21/02/2014 09:55, Dennis Regan wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN’T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Hi :) It's an unusual problem that looks a lot like a fairly frequently asked question. Your question has an extra twist which we didn't notice earlier. I am not sure if there is an easy way to convert numbers to words. ie 2,000 to Two thousand So far people have been talking about how to make the numbers look like numbers still but just be unable to perform calculations using them. It's good for telephone numbers, zip-codes and that sort of thing. There might be an Extension (what other people call Add-ons or Plug-ins) to do that in LibreOffice itself or there might be a separate app (or program) that can do this outside of LibreOffice. Our Extensions page is here; http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/ Most are written by 3rd parties but some are very popular. There are also Extensions written for OpenOffice which might still work with LO or it might be easy to contact their devs to ask them if they could update it for LO. Sorry this isn't very helpful! Apols and regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 13:28, C grx...@y7mail.com wrote: Hi there! You can convert a number in text if you place an apostrophe sign before your number (e.g. '123). Also, you can select desired cells and then use Format menuCellsNumbers tabCategoryText OK. Cristi On 21/02/2014 09:55, Dennis Regan wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN'T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC?
Try this link. Specifically the function getAmountInWord in the described macro. Don't try the extension. Alex On Friday 21 Feb 2014 15:29:18 Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's an unusual problem that looks a lot like a fairly frequently asked question. Your question has an extra twist which we didn't notice earlier. I am not sure if there is an easy way to convert numbers to words. ie 2,000 to Two thousand So far people have been talking about how to make the numbers look like numbers still but just be unable to perform calculations using them. It's good for telephone numbers, zip-codes and that sort of thing. There might be an Extension (what other people call Add-ons or Plug-ins) to do that in LibreOffice itself or there might be a separate app (or program) that can do this outside of LibreOffice. Our Extensions page is here; http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/ Most are written by 3rd parties but some are very popular. There are also Extensions written for OpenOffice which might still work with LO or it might be easy to contact their devs to ask them if they could update it for LO. Sorry this isn't very helpful! Apols and regards from Tom :) On 21 February 2014 13:28, C grx...@y7mail.com wrote: Hi there! You can convert a number in text if you place an apostrophe sign before your number (e.g. '123). Also, you can select desired cells and then use Format menuCellsNumbers tabCategoryText OK. Cristi On 21/02/2014 09:55, Dennis Regan wrote: MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: dennispreg...@hotmail.com DEAR SIR OR MS., MY NAME IS DENNIS REGAN AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU THAT I COULDN'T FIND THE ANSWER TO ONLINE OR IN LibreOffice Calc Help. +) HOW CAN I CONVERT A NUMBER IN LibreOffice CALC TO TEXT IN LibreOffice CALC? THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF FORMULAS AND SYNTAX FOR EXCEL ONLINE FOR THIS BUT NONE WORK IN LibreOffice Calc. PLEASE ADVISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE USING THIS EMAIL OR THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOUND ABOVE. THANK YOU! Very Sincerely, Dennis Regan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
