On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:26 +0100, Johnny Andersson wrote:
> This is, to me, very strange....

I'd be happy to look at your file if you want to send it to me
privately. I tried to reproduce the error but no-doubt my table was
inadequate.

> The E column of a spreadsheet... there are some calculated values, shown with 
> 2 decimals. E2 contains =max(E3:E1000) or something like that.
> 
> I thought that 2 decimals was not enough so I changed to 3. I highlighted the 
> E column and changed the number of shown decimals to 3. Each one of the cells 
> in the E column (E3:E1000) contains contidtional formatting. They are all 
> compared to E2 and if they are equal to E2 the background colour of that 
> cells turns green. This is a typical example where the precision of the 
> calculations are critical (and I have had a lot of problems in that matter 
> with OpenOffice Calc, but no one seems to care at all). So when I change to 3 
> decimals, the cell with the highest value (the same value as E2), which was 
> green before, is no longer green (sometimes, but sometimes it is... which 
> make the whole thing even more strange). As if this would not be enough, it 
> only shows 2 decimals!
> 
> If anyone is interested, I can send the whole file. If you can manage how to 
> fix this, then you certainly can do something that I can not... As long as I 
> keep using 2 decimals, everything works fine, in any other case it doesn't.
> 
> I made some changes in Tools - Options - Spreadsheet - Calculate, but all 
> with no seccess at all. Like I changed the decimal field to 3 instead of 2 
> and I unchecked a checkbox called something like "precision as shown".
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Johnny Andersson
> 
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