Doesn't work for me. Here are all the steps I did: Format the cells as number, select the Regular expressions option, select the cells A1, A2, A3, type .+ in the Search for box, & in the Replace box, and click Replace.
No change to any cell. What am I missing? --Jean On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 18:33 +1300, Gareth McMullin wrote: > Hi Jean > > Add numbers formatted as strings to your spreadsheet. For example: > in cell A1: '1 > in cell A2: '2 > in cell A3: =SUM(A1:A2) > A3 shows the value 0, because A1 and A2 are strings. Doing the > find and replace as described reenters A1 and A2 as numbers, so A3 > shows the value of 3. > > I hope that helps. > > Regards, > Gareth > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I found this page on the wiki, > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Calc#Regular_expressions_in_Calc_Find_.26_Replace > > > > At the bottom of the page is this info: > > > > "Find '.+' (or similar) and Replace with '&' effectively re-enters the > > contents of cells. This can be used to 'strip' formatting automatically > > applied by Calc (often needed to 'clean' data imported from the > > clipboard or badly formatted files), for example, to convert text > > strings consisting of digits, into actual numbers (the cells must first > > be correctly formatted 'number'). The leading apostrophes, telling Calc > > to treat the numbers as text, are removed." > > > > I'm obviously missing something crucial about what to put into my test > > spreadsheet and what to put into the Find and Replace boxes on the > > dialog, because I get no change at all. Can someone please explain this > > in different terms, or (better still) give a specific example? Thanks. > > > > --Jean > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
