Hi :) I suspect that this problem is solved now, thanks to Piet van Oostrum.
Hopefully the cells didn't get formatted into text, as Mark suggested, but once things have gone wrong for no readily apparent reason it's good to know of a few weird and unlikely possibilities. Following along Mark's line-of-thought i wondered if cells maybe had a ' character added at the start of each affected cell. If so then that forces the spreadsheet to treat the cell as "text" regardless of whatever formatting has been set for that cell. Again i think it's unlikely but it's a way of generating the type of result that you are seeing. A random cat or malicious (or random) colleague could probably do Piet's suggestion quite quickly by accident but mine or Mark's suggestion would take quite a bit more work. Regards from Tom :) On 10 April 2015 at 20:45, <[email protected]> wrote: > Piet van Oostrum wrote: > >> edo1 wrote: >> >> > I hate to ask this, since I thought of myself as pretty competent in >> Calc. >> > But here goes: >> > >> > I can't run even the simplest functions in the spreadsheet. E.g, =3-2 >> shows >> > up in the designated cell as a text string "=3-2" rather than the >> digit 1. I >> > also get text strings instead of proper results for =SUM(A1:A10), >> say, and >> > all other functions. This happens in LO 4.4.2.2 as well as in ver. >> 4.3.5, >> > which previously worked fine. A virus scan of the LO installation >> folder >> > turned up nothing. Since I haven't used Calc for a long time, I'm >> reluctant >> > to go back to a previous restore point without trying some other >> things >> > first. Can anyone suggest what I might do now? I'm running Win7x64. - >> edo1 >> >> Check your preferences, I guess this is Tool->Options on Windows. >> >> then LibreOffice Calc->View->Display-> uncheck Formulas >> > > Another possibility is that the cells are formatted as "Text", rather than > "General" or a numerical format. Make sure they're formatted as either > General or the required numerical format before entering the formulas. > > "General" is usually the default for all cells in new documents, but it is > possible to change the default template. > > Mark. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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: [email protected] 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
