On 12/24/2010 5:59 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Den 2010-12-22 21:01:13 skrev Harold Fuchs <fuchs.har...@gmail.com>:
On 22/12/2010 19:36, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Den 2010-12-22 20:13:58 skrev Paul Cohen <peco...@fairpoint.net>:
Is there any way to format data in a column so that the decimal points
are aligned?
I thought that something like ”0,#####” should work, but it didn't…
so now we are two who want to know…
Perhaps you are trying to achieve something I don't understand but,
from your question, I'd say simply format the cells with a fixed
number of decimal places - Format>Cells>>Numbers>Options>Decimal
Places - set the value to, say, 2 and all the decimal points will
line up. You can do it for a whole column by selecting the column, or
for a range of cells by selecting only those cells. With a value of 2
in the Decimal Places setting a value of 1234 will be shown as
1234.00 and a value 3.4 will show as 3.40 so that the decimal point
appears in the right place.
You can also set the next option in that same pane - "Leading Zeros".
If you set that to zero then the value 0.1 will appear as .10 but the
decimal point will still line up with the others. If you set it to 2
then 0.12 will appear as 00.12 and, again, the decimal point will be
in the right place.
I'm sorry, but this seems so fundamental that I think I must have
misunderstood something.
You can do this in Writer, as a matter of fact, and I would guess the
purpose of this is to line numbers up nicely if the number of decimals
are not the same for all the values, like this (you need to use a font
like Liberation Mono, Free Mono, Courier or similar for this to look
right):
45.321
3.9
1325.
2537.99225
Well, you get the point… (hopefully the trailing spaces are not
omitted somewhere on the way between now when I send the message and
later when you receive it…). The decimal symbol should be in the same
position for all the values above.
As I said, in OpenOffice.org Writer you can do this and you can do it
for any character, for example the letter ”k”:
Resistance (Ω)
2k49
1k
24k9
249k
and so on.
I probably should have been more clear about my question. What I was
hoping for was a formatting in Calc that would behave much as the
decimal tab works in Writer. I would imagine selecting a column of
cells and direct that the values, which might not all have the same
numbers of digits, be aligned on their decimal points, just as you would
do when writing numbers in a column on a piece of paper.
--
*Paul Cohen*
