Hi :) I think you might be over-complicating it? Just typign the number in as a number and letting the formatting do it's magic seems a much easier route! Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> >To: LibreOffice Användare <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Saturday, 9 March 2013, 12:54 >Subject: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Currency conversion/display in calc > >Same mistake as usual, sending my replies privately. I will never >learn, I'm quite sure of that now… > >Anyway, here it is again, to the list this time: > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> >Date: 2013/3/9 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Currency conversion/display in calc >To: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com> > > >2013/3/9 Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com>: >> Hi. >> If I type or paste $2,441.99 into a cell in calc (3.6) it is left aligned. >> If I right click format cell it states number-general. >> If I divide it by 2 I get #value! >> >> How do I get LO to recognise this as a number. I found a long winded way, >> format it as currency and remove the ' that LO puts in front. >> Steve > >I think a macro could do that for you and I was even thinking of >writing one, but if it should be useful no matter what locale settings >you have, the macro needs to know things like decimal- and thousands >separator (for example in my country we use space for thousands >separator and comma for decimal separator, which is quite different >from yours). I am sure it's possible but still searching… > > >Johnny Rosenberg > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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 > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
