At 13:28 04/04/2007 -0400, Sandra Schreiber wrote:
I am attempting to use an "acccounting" alignment for currency in Oo2.2 Calc. I need to line up dollar signs, thousands, hundreds, tens, decimal points, etc., but cannot figure how to do so. Please (1) advise if I can do that in this program and if so (2) how to format the cell to accomplish this. See example below.

$1,000.00
$   500.00
$      15.00
$        5.00
$          .50

and ...

At 19:56 04/04/2007 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Can this be done with user defined numbers and format codes?

I think the code needed is:
[>=1000]$0,000.00;[>=100]$_0_,000.00;[>=10]$_0_,_000.00;[>=1]$_0_,_0_00.00;$_0_,_0_0_0.00

But this expression needs one element for each decade - five in the example given. The help text confirms that the maximum permitted is three. So it's no use. Unless anyone can see a neater way of expressing this ...

Brian Barker


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