Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

2018-08-05 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2018-07-30 03:46 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or > 20M or 40G within LIbreOffice? I had a think about this, and came up with this function for text in cell D2: =IF(LEN(T(D2))=0, D2,CONVERT(VALUE(LEFT(D2,

Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

2018-07-31 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
Not without macros. LibreOffice is kinda hamstrung by its file format and MS Excel compatibility. Gnumeric can do this, but it's never had to play to a big compatibility or business market. It's supposed to have true engineering notation in LibreOffice Calc > 4.5 or so, not just the three s.f.

Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

2018-07-31 Thread Tim Tisdall via talk
On 30 July 2018 at 15:46, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or 20M or > 40G within LIbreOffice? I think you may have to do it manually with a series of nested IF statements. So, if x>1,000,000,000 then x/1,000,000,000 + "G" else if

Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

2018-07-30 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 07/30/2018 04:09 PM, Myles Braithwaite  via talk wrote: Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2018-07-30 3:46 PM: Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or 20M or 40G within LIbreOffice? I have had little luck searching with google et al. While I am at it how about

Re: [GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

2018-07-30 Thread Myles Braithwaite  via talk
Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2018-07-30 3:46 PM: Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or 20M or 40G within LIbreOffice? I have had little luck searching with google et al. While I am at it how about engineering notation? I think you looking for superscript

[GTALUG] An LibreOffice question.

2018-07-30 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
Does anybody know how to display and work with SI numbers like 10k or 20M or 40G within LIbreOffice? I have had little luck searching with google et al. While I am at it how about engineering notation? -- Alvin Starr || land: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. ||