Re: newbie

2021-05-30 Thread kf
Yes, some conditional statement (if..., then...) would be basically how to examine the value of a cell and assign a value (e.g., background color) to that cell. I would think though there would be a different problem implementing it. Jakob, you say you wish to "identify the current date by mar

Re: newbie

2021-05-27 Thread Jean Bréfort
Hi, You can use conditional formatting. Option "Cell value is = x." and today() as value. Hope this helps. Jean Le mercredi 26 mai 2021 à 21:20 +, Jakob Cornelis via gnumeric-list a écrit : > I use gnumeric’s calendar template for an events and appointments > calendar. One feature that would

newbie

2021-05-26 Thread Jakob Cornelis via gnumeric-list
I use gnumeric’s calendar template for an events and appointments calendar. One feature that would very useful would be to automatically identify the current date by marking the relevant cell(s). This could be by background colour (which would be my preference), or bolding the day box, or something

Re: follow up II - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 12:42:29PM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-05-22 7:26 p.m., Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > >input0.24997 > > You are playing at the edge of the maximum mantissa length. Did you ever > try using that number in LibreOffice or Excel?

Aw: Re: follow up II - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-23 Thread b. via gnumeric-list
h, but today we have a wide installed base of 'IEEE machines', and i'm not searching for 'specialised computation', but for gnumeric to avoid fails and keep it's position as the spreadsheet with the best mathematical precision / correctness, the more of that works th

Re: follow up II - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-23 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
Hi, On 2021-05-22 7:26 p.m., Steven D'Aprano wrote: input 0.24997 You are playing at the edge of the maximum mantissa length. Did you ever try using that number in LibreOffice or Excel? Andreas ___ gnumeric-list mailing list g

Re: RE: follow up II - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Here is a summary of the results from rounddown. Cells are set to display 17 decimal places. input 0.24997 digits rounddown expected 1 0.20001 0.20001 2 0.25000 0.23999 3 0.250

Re: RE: follow up II - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi, Do you prefer to be called "nullzwei" or "b"? I think that your issue is that you believe that roundup and rounddown do not behave correctly, if that correct? You have the value: 0.24997 and rounddown(0.24997, 16) returns 0.25 exactly, which is larger than the ori

Aw: RE: follow up II - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-22 Thread newbie nullzwei via gnumeric-list
  hello list, this is a follow up to a question mailed some days ago, i have some problems with rounding in gnumeric, tried to make a sheet which shows them in detail, see attachement, in short: roundup and rounddown act irregularly with some values, i'd consider it important to fix that as

Aw: RE: follow up - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-19 Thread newbie nullzwei via gnumeric-list
,16)' go to the smaller value ~0.24994?  that's clueless to me ... regards, b.   Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021 um 07:44 Uhr Von: "aguelzow" An: newbie...@gmx.de, gnumeric-list@gnome.org Betreff: RE: follow up - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of

RE: follow up - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-18 Thread aguelzow
2:29 (GMT-07:00) To: gnumeric-list@gnome.org Subject: follow up - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values   hi @all, i'm new here, pls. excuse if i am not well adapted to the manners, (asked something some time ago, got answer from a 'private email'

follow up - newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-18 Thread b. via gnumeric-list
  hi @all, i'm new here, pls. excuse if i am not well adapted to the manners, (asked something some time ago, got answer from a 'private email', but none to follow up questions, thus try to write to the list again, sorry if wrong, >> 1. gnumeric produces much better sums over ranges than other

Re: newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-06 Thread Morten Welinder
1. We use an extension of Kahan summation, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/goffice/-/blob/master/goffice/math/go-accumulator.c This is done for sum(...), not for a+b 2. We don't even attempt to be smart here. It's pointless as the partial sums often sit in their own cells and must be displ

newbie questions, sum over range, rounding of special problematic values

2021-05-06 Thread b. via gnumeric-list
  hi @all, i'm new here, pls. excuse if i am not well adapted to the manners i'm studying how to get correct results for floating point calculations, and am curious about three points: 1. gnumeric produces much better sums over ranges than other spreadsheets which i have seen (LO calc and MS exc

Re: gnumeric spreadsheet newbie questions

2017-12-08 Thread Oliver Burnett-Hall
Dave, I'd do this in two steps. 1) In column C calculate the hour value for each reading. In cell C2 enter =DATE(YEAR($A2),MONTH($A2),DAY($A2))+TIME(HOUR($A2),0,0) and copy it down the column. 2) In column D sum all the readings that match the hour value for the current reading. Enter this in ce

gnumeric spreadsheet newbie questions

2017-12-07 Thread Dave Stevens
I have some spreadsheets with about 30K rows each. In column A is a time and date like this - 2017-11-01 00:01:16 UTC. The time increments monotonically for a month then that's all the rows. I'd like to sum the readings for each hour, The number of rows per hour varies a bit with uneven intervals.

Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-16 Thread Jean Bréfort
t, over time, it must have been > forgotten. If thiss is anything to go by, it was probably forgotten with > some rlief. It does seem to be a very complicated and un-intuitive way to go > about things. If it had been a manually drawn graph, the setting up would > have taken just a few min

Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-16 Thread Jean Bréfort
as far as I can see does > not exist in this version > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/A-plea-from-a-semi-newbie-tp66352p66361.html > Sent from the GnuMeric mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > __

Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-16 Thread rodgos
52.n7.nabble.com/A-plea-from-a-semi-newbie-tp66352p66361.html Sent from the GnuMeric mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-16 Thread rodgos
few minutes. -- View this message in context: http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/A-plea-from-a-semi-newbie-tp66352p66365.html Sent from the GnuMeric mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-16 Thread Jean Bréfort
temperature range. Since this data had to be entered > manually, it was the greater chore. So the left hand X axis indicator > registered the temperature, and another, to the right indicated rainfall. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.n

Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-16 Thread rodgos
h the temperature range. Since this data had to be entered manually, it was the greater chore. So the left hand X axis indicator registered the temperature, and another, to the right indicated rainfall. -- View this message in context: http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/A-plea-from-a-semi-n

Re: A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-15 Thread Jean Bréfort
; > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/A-plea-from-a-semi-newbie-tp66352.html > Sent from the GnuMeric mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ___ > gnumeric-list mailing list &g

A plea from a semi-newbie

2015-01-15 Thread rodgos
e and time), to form the X axis and column C (temperature) to form the Y axis. Any ideas, please? -- View this message in context: http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/A-plea-from-a-semi-newbie-tp66352.html Sent from the GnuMeric mailing list archive at

Re: newbie struggling with advanced filter

2005-12-28 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I have a worksheet that has data A2:N1178, and I want to filter it to > > create a new worksheet that has select columns from the original as > > well as select rows based on a filter. > > > > My first question is whether I necessarily must use an advanced > > filter. The

Re: newbie struggling with advanced filter

2005-12-28 Thread Oliver Burnett-Hall
Haines Brown wrote: I have a worksheet that has data A2:N1178, and I want to filter it to create a new worksheet that has select columns from the original as well as select rows based on a filter. My first question is whether I necessarily must use an advanced filter. The autofilter seems to hav

newbie struggling with advanced filter

2005-12-27 Thread Haines Brown
I have a worksheet that has data A2:N1178, and I want to filter it to create a new worksheet that has select columns from the original as well as select rows based on a filter. My first question is whether I necessarily must use an advanced filter. The autofilter seems to have a maximum capacity

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-03-02 Thread Haines Brown
The specific input regarding a suitable script very much appreciated. Thank you. Indeed, it gives me a base from which to start. Haines ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-03-01 Thread steinm
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:51:24PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: >X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Gnumeric Dev List >Organization: Taliesin Software >Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:14:19 -0700 >X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-03-01 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:51 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: >X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Gnumeric Dev List >Organization: Taliesin Software >Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:14:19 -0700 >X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-03-01 Thread Haines Brown
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Gnumeric Dev List Organization: Taliesin Software Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:14:19 -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at hartford-hwp.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tag

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-02-27 Thread Martin Sevior
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 10:11 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I'm told that gnumeric-->TeX is the conventional way of doing labels, > > > but I'm uncertain how to go about that. Can anyone point me to a > > > source of information or offer a little guidance? > > > Hi Haines, > >The sim

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-02-27 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Haines Brown wrote: > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:11:57 -0500 (EST) > From: Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: gnumeric-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: A newbie asks about printing labels > > > > I'm told that gnu

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-02-27 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
rything else in LaTeX.) > Can anyone point me to a > source of information or offer a little guidance? > > And a newbie question about the suitability of my organization of data > in gnumeric for printing labels. I have put addresses in three > columns: a) a column, usually empty,

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-02-27 Thread Haines Brown
> > I'm told that gnumeric-->TeX is the conventional way of doing labels, > > but I'm uncertain how to go about that. Can anyone point me to a > > source of information or offer a little guidance? > Hi Haines, >The simplest is to export your gnumeric data file to a csv then > use AbiW

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-02-27 Thread msevior
abels from it. I don't use a word processor, but LaTeX (with > emacs under Debian sarge). > > I'm told that gnumeric-->TeX is the conventional way of doing labels, > but I'm uncertain how to go about that. Can anyone point me to a > source of information or offer a litt

Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-02-27 Thread steinm
vert and your potential convertion script it can easy be automated. > And a newbie question about the suitability of my organization of data > in gnumeric for printing labels. I have put addresses in three > columns: a) a column, usually empty, but available for cases where > there might be

A newbie asks about printing labels

2005-02-27 Thread Haines Brown
word processor, but LaTeX (with emacs under Debian sarge). I'm told that gnumeric-->TeX is the conventional way of doing labels, but I'm uncertain how to go about that. Can anyone point me to a source of information or offer a little guidance? And a newbie question about the suitabil