Re: OO spreadsheet question

2012-05-02 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:02 02/05/2012 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: Frustrating isn't it? Create a column to the right of each column of numbers. (for example, Column C has numbers in it beginning with cell C3). In cell D3 enter this formula including =: =VALUE(C3). Tap the enter key. Now cell D3 has C3's n

Re: OO spreadsheet question

2012-05-02 Thread Niall Martin
utton. That should do it. On 2 May 2012 at 10:25, Bill Dillinger wrote: Send reply to: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org Date sent: Wed, 02 May 2012 10:25:54 -0400 From: Bill Dillinger To: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: OO spreadsheet question > When I download my bank st

Re: OO spreadsheet question

2012-05-02 Thread Bill Dillinger
Thanks to All! Really quick responses. I have created a new folder in Thunderbird to save mail from this group as the responses are really good. Paul's response was first and lead me to an easy answer. My dialog box had a check for "Quoted field as text". When I unchecked this box the numbers c

Re: OO spreadsheet question

2012-05-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 10:25 -0400, Bill Dillinger wrote: > When I download my bank statements they come as .csv files. When I > open these in the Open Office spreadsheet the fields with numbers come > in as characters and the formula window shows them to be preceded by > a quote, ', mark. I hav

Re: OO spreadsheet question

2012-05-02 Thread Tom Young
On 5/2/2012 10:25 AM, Bill Dillinger wrote: When I download my bank statements they come as .csv files. When I open these in the Open Office spreadsheet the fields with numbers come in as characters and the formula window shows them to be preceded by a quote, ', mark. I have looked through 'he

Re: OO spreadsheet question

2012-05-02 Thread Paul M. Nguyen
I believe the dialog box that appears when you attempt to open a .csv file allows you to specify various characteristics of how the file is structured. The fields could be tab-delimited or comma-delimited (or any arbitrary character) and fields may be enclosed in other punctuation that OOo can stri

OO spreadsheet question

2012-05-02 Thread Bill Dillinger
When I download my bank statements they come as .csv files. When I open these in the Open Office spreadsheet the fields with numbers come in as characters and the formula window shows them to be preceded by a quote, ', mark. I have looked through 'help' but have not found a way to remove the le