Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Paul
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:10:03 +0200 Pertti Rönnberg wrote: > Paul's answer is interesting from another point of view also -- he > changes the decimal sign from a comma to a period and replaces the > periods replaced by commas to get the "correct" thousand separator. Well, you might be able to ju

Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Brian, Your formula workes perfect! Fantastic! And I learned a little more about creating formulas. Thanks again! Cheers ; skål (swedish) ; kippis (finnish) Pertti Rönnberg On 13.1.2014 3:13, Brian Barker wrote: At 17:55 12/01/2014 +0200, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Since years back I have copied my

Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Thank you Paul and Brian for your interesting answers and for your kindness to send them so soon. I have not checked them yet but I am sure that both of them give me what I was looking for. I see thepros and cons in Paul's method: by splitting the calculation in details you can follow both the

Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem

2014-01-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:55 12/01/2014 +0200, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Since years back I have copied my bank's digital listing of my bank account(s); first using MSOWord and later on MSOExcel. My intention is to transform these listings so I can calculate with the currency values in LibO-Calc. The bank's table h

Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem

2014-01-12 Thread Paul
I haven't so much tried to answer your question directly, instead I attempted to solve the same problem you did. For me, this gives a simpler answer. Given: Col A: The initial bank value as text Col B: =IF(RIGHT(A1,1)="-","Debit","Credit") Col C: =LEN(A1) Col D: =LEFT(A1,C1-1) Col E: =FIND(",",D1)

[libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem

2014-01-12 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Happy New Year Dear LibO experts, Since years back I have copied my bank's digital listing of my bank account(s); first using MSOWord and later on MSOExcel. My intension is to transform these listings so I can calculate with the currency values in LibO-Calc. The bank's table has four cols: colA