[users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a spreadsheet with 1375 rows. One of the colums is a time column, with the format 'hh:mm:ss. Note the leading ' sign. In order to sum this column, I need to remove this character. However, the search and replace dialogue s not recognize this character. How can I remove them all easily? Than

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Brian McKee
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a spreadsheet with 1375 rows. One of the colums is a time > column, with the format 'hh:mm:ss. Note the leading ' sign. In order > to sum this column, I need to remove this character. However, the > search and replace dialogue s not reco

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Pradeep Srinivas
On Thursday 17 December 2009 18:16:40 Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a spreadsheet with 1375 rows. One of the colums is a time > column, with the format 'hh:mm:ss. Note the leading ' sign. In > order to sum this column, I need to remove this character. > However, the search and replace dialogue s no

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Marcello Romani
Dotan Cohen ha scritto: I have a spreadsheet with 1375 rows. One of the colums is a time column, with the format 'hh:mm:ss. Note the leading ' sign. In order to sum this column, I need to remove this character. However, the search and replace dialogue s not recognize this character. How can I rem

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 12/17/2009, Marcello Romani (mrom...@ottotecnica.com) wrote: > Do you see the ' character in the cell or only in the value bar ? I > ask because I happen to have some spreadsheets in which I read 0,00 > in the cells, but I see '0,00 in the value bar. The leading ' tells > OOo that the cell is to

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Marcello Romani
Tanstaafl ha scritto: On 12/17/2009, Marcello Romani (mrom...@ottotecnica.com) wrote: Do you see the ' character in the cell or only in the value bar ? I ask because I happen to have some spreadsheets in which I read 0,00 in the cells, but I see '0,00 in the value bar. The leading ' tells OOo th

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:46 17/12/2009 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a spreadsheet with 1375 rows. One of the columns is a time column, with the format 'hh:mm:ss. Note the leading ' sign. In order to sum this column, I need to remove this character. However, the search and replace dialogue [does] not recognize

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2009/12/17 Dotan Cohen : > I have a spreadsheet with 1375 rows. One of the colums is a time > column, with the format 'hh:mm:ss. Note the leading ' sign. In order > to sum this column, I need to remove this character. However, the > search and replace dialogue s not recognize this character. How ca

Re: [users] Calc: remove ' character before number

2009-12-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:30 17/12/2009 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: [...] And there's more: Opening my example file I can see numbers in a lot of cells. When selecting a cell, the input line shows, for example: '285 The cell itself displays: 285 BUTÂ… when I manually enter '285 in a cell, that cell actually d