The thing is that I don't want it recognised as a formula. I want to
enter that text as an example or say =C4 as another example and not have
it recognised as a formula.
Steve
On 2013-06-13 14:50, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Ditch the curly braces. They prevent the formula inside from being recognized
as a formula.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Deaton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 05:42 PM
To: Steve Edmonds
Cc: NickKolok; LibreOffice
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Showing cell contents as text in calc. (Not
evaluating the formula the text represents)
Maybe it's a difference between the different language settings, or the
operating system. I'm using LO Version 3.6.6.2 (Build ID: f969faf) on
Windows 7 64-bit, and my language setting is USA English.
First I copied the formula from below, including the curly brackets, and
pasted it into calc. It behaved as a string, not a formula.
Next, I copied it again, and then changed the S31 to S32. Still behaved
as a string.
Third, I typed the formula in from scratch. Still behaved as a string.
Fourth, I grabbed the handle on the bottom right corner of the cell and
dragged down to copy. Still a string.
But about this time, I noticed that the first two cells had blank spaces
after the end of the entry. the third and forth cells (the one I had
typed from scratch, and the copy made by dragging down from that one)
didn't.
Finally, I clicked into the fourth cell to change S31 to S32. When I did
so, the curly brackets disappeared, the cell references took on colors,
and the lines appeared around the cells included in the arrays. BUT -
when I hit ENTER, the text became a string again, complete with the
curly brackets that had disappeared while I was editing it.
Maybe if I knew something about the kind of math represented by these
functions, I'd have a better clue. But I know nothing about that level
of math.
-- Tim
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On 6/12/2013 6:07 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
Thanks for the reply, please click into the cell and change S31 to
S32. Do the contents change into a formula or stay as text.
Steve
On 2013-06-13 09:59, NickKolok wrote:
Greetings from Russia!
I opened LibreOffice Calc (4.0.3) fnd simply copy-pasted the following:
{=MMULT(MINVERSE(A14:R31),S14:S31)}
into an empty cell on a empty book.
It is displaying as text, not calculating a formula.What am I d oing
wrong?
Четверг, 13 июня 2013, 9:44 +12:00 от Steve Edmonds
<[email protected]>:
Hi.
I want to enter {=MMULT(MINVERSE(A14:R31),S14:S31)} in a cell and to
display this as the text "{=MMULT(MINVERSE(A14:R31),S14:S31)}" (without
the "" quotes). Formatting the cell as text doesn't help. I thought
once
you could prepend with a ' to define the characters following as left
aligned text but not show the '. This does not seem to work any more,
there must be a simple solution I am missing.
Cheers, steve
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