Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:43 26/05/2012 +0200, Miguel Angel wrote: El 26/05/12 12:41, Brian Barker escribió: At 17:14 25/05/2012 +0200, Miguel Angel wrote: Maybe the mistake is in search for 0.000, it can't be found, because a 0.000 is always saved as 0, nonsignificant zeroes to the right/left of decimal point a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-26 Thread MiguelAngel
El 26/05/12 12:41, Brian Barker escribió: At 17:14 25/05/2012 +0200, MiguelAngel wrote: Maybe the mistake is in search for 0.000, it can't be found, because a 0.000 is always saved as 0, nonsignificant zeroes to the right/left of decimal point are never saved. Computers store numbers in a fixe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:14 25/05/2012 +0200, MiguelAngel wrote: Maybe the mistake is in search for 0.000, it can't be found, because a 0.000 is always saved as 0, nonsignificant zeroes to the right/left of decimal point are never saved. Computers store numbers in a fixed-length format - however-many bytes. So

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 25.05.2012 15:14, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Turn on menu:View>Highlight Values [Ctrl+F8]. What is the font color of X99? A blue color proves that X99 is a number. Text appears black. Other than column A (site names), every other cell is blue. I'm going

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 25.05.2012 16:31, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: Can you post your document somewhere on the web? I think that there are users who are just curious what's so special about your data that neither of tips have worked for you. Mirosław, It's client data so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Tom Davies
gards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 25/5/12, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: From: Mirosław Zalewski Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 25 May, 2012, 15:18 On 25/05/2012 at 15:14, Rich Shepard wrote: >  I&#x

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread MiguelAngel
El 25/05/12 16:52, Rich Shepard escribió: On Fri, 25 May 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: Sorry we could not solve your problem, then. That's OK. awk, sed, grep, cut, and sort do the job very quickly. :-) Thanks to all for the suggesions, Rich Maybe the mistake is in search for 0.000, it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: Sorry we could not solve your problem, then. That's OK. awk, sed, grep, cut, and sort do the job very quickly. :-) Thanks to all for the suggesions, Rich -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 25/05/2012 at 16:31, Rich Shepard wrote: > It's client data so I cannot distribute it. I was afraid that's the case. Sorry we could not solve your problem, then. -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: Can you post your document somewhere on the web? I think that there are users who are just curious what's so special about your data that neither of tips have worked for you. Mirosław, It's client data so I cannot distribute it. Rich -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 25/05/2012 at 15:14, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm going to write an awk script that will change the zeros to the > appropriate reporting limit. That'll be quicker than my trying to > understand what's happening in Calc. It may be. Can you post your document somewhere on the web? I think that th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Andreas Säger wrote: Turn on menu:View>Highlight Values [Ctrl+F8]. What is the font color of X99? A blue color proves that X99 is a number. Text appears black. Other than column A (site names), every other cell is blue. I'm going to write an awk script that will chang

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Search & Replace Within A Column

2012-05-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Say X99 displays 0.005. Turn on menu:View>Highlight Values [Ctrl+F8]. What is the font color of X99? A blue color proves that X99 is a number. Text appears black. Get some unused cell and enter =X99=0.005 What is the result? Should be either TRUE or FALSE. If FALSE, what is the result of =X99-