In news:1310666739.4101.16.camel@planas-pinguy, planas <jsloz...@gmail.com> typed: > Hi Geoff, > > On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 08:04 -0700, floridabrits wrote: > >> Hello LibreOffice fans... >> >> I'm looking for some help with calc on a spreadsheet >> that I have set up. I'm >> not sure if it needs a macro set up, or if there's >> something in LibreOffice >> that will do this for me, or if I have to seek custom >> development to do >> this.... >> >> Here's the problem: >> >> - I have a large risk management spreadsheet that >> contains a number of cells >> with currency based risk numbers in it; some of these >> are manually entered >> by the user and some are calculated from cells where the >> user enters the >> information. >> - Currently, the financial risk cells are all in USD ($) >> currency. >> - If I have a user in another country that wants to use >> this spreadsheet, >> I'd like that person to be able to either press a >> button, or select from a >> drop-down list, a list of available currencies to choose >> from. - When they choose their currently, I want a macro >> (or something!) to go and >> find all the US currency based cells in the spreadsheet >> and change them to >> the currency selected by the user. >> - If I can get this to work, then this spreadsheet could >> pretty much be used >> in any country/currency and the user would not have to >> go into every single >> currency based cell and make the changes needed (which >> would be time >> prohibitive). >> - i.e. Looking for a minimum click solution to achieve >> this. I do realize >> that the local install will change the currency for the >> user by default, but >> I want to be able to over-ride this so that if a local >> user sees the >> spreadsheet in USD and changes it to, for example, GBP, >> then when he sends >> it back to me, I see the numbers in GBP and not my local >> language setting (which would default back to USD). >> >> I hope I have explained this clearly! If not please >> don't hesitate to >> ask... >> >> Has anyone done this before or have any ideas how to >> achieve what I am >> looking for? >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> >> Regards, >> >> Geoff >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Ability-to-change-currency-as-needed-across-a-spreadsheet-in-Calc-tp3169381p3169381.html >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > If I understand you problem, you want to show the > currency in a user defined manner. One possibility is to > have a cover worksheet that summarizes the data in any > currency. You might use a macro to set the proper > currency and exchange rates. > > One idea that might make finding all the cells with data > to be converted is to name each one as a one-cell range > (ex the cell sheet4!C3 is named 'Fred'). > > -- > Jay Lozier > jsloz...@gmail.com
You could only make that work if you included a look-up on the exchange rates for every monetary system you wanted to use as they change daily, even hourly in some cases, and a number today m,ight not be accurate tomorrow. How much accuracy do you requre in other words? You could take a bath in some cases. Otherwise, just set up your currency multipliers in hidden columns and do the multiplication. HTH, Twayne` -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
