2009/7/14 Dotan Cohen <[email protected]>

> > Have you still got the sheet with the number correct in one cell and
> rounded
> > in another? If so you could have a look in the content.xml [sub-]file to
> see
> > how they are being stored. To do this, open the .ods file with something
> > like WinZip or gzip or 7-Zip and look at the content.xml file it contains
> > with a text editor like Notepad or Wordpad. It *may* give some clue as to
> > what is going on.
> >
>
> It looks like the data is actually stored rounded, not just displayed
> rounded:
>
> <table:table-row table:style-name="ro1"><table:table-cell
> table:number-columns-repeated="2"/><table:table-cell
> office:value-type="float"
>
> office:value="317908000"><text:p>317908000</text:p></table:table-cell><table:table-cell
> table:number-columns-repeated="253"/></table:table-row>
>
> <table:table-row table:style-name="ro1"><table:table-cell
> table:number-columns-repeated="2"/><table:table-cell
> office:value-type="float"
>
> office:value="317907988"><text:p>317907988</text:p></table:table-cell><table:table-cell
> table:number-columns-repeated="253"/></table:table-row>
>
>
> > Hmmmm. Enter 317907988 in cell A1 of a new sheet. Select the cell. A
> little
> > plus sign will appear at the bottom right corner of the cell. Drag this
> down
> > to A14 and look at the value in A13. It should be 317908000, which is
> > exactly the example you gave above. Is this what is happening? Perhaps
> > someone thinks they are *copying* or *moving* the values from one cell to
> > another by doing this?????
> >
>
> That is not what happened here, I know because I wrote that spreadsheet!
>
>
There are options in the Paste Special menu that
add/subtract/multiply/divide the copied value to/from/by/by the target cell
before overwriting that cell. So, if you Copy 100 and Paste Special with
Subtract turned on into a cell containing 1234567 you'll end up with
1234467. Paste Special seems to remember the last such option used. Hmmm
????

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