Same mistake as usual, sending my replies privately. I will never learn, I'm quite sure of that now…
Anyway, here it is again, to the list this time: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> Date: 2013/3/9 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Currency conversion/display in calc To: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com> 2013/3/9 Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com>: > Hi. > If I type or paste $2,441.99 into a cell in calc (3.6) it is left aligned. > If I right click format cell it states number-general. > If I divide it by 2 I get #value! > > How do I get LO to recognise this as a number. I found a long winded way, > format it as currency and remove the ' that LO puts in front. > Steve I think a macro could do that for you and I was even thinking of writing one, but if it should be useful no matter what locale settings you have, the macro needs to know things like decimal- and thousands separator (for example in my country we use space for thousands separator and comma for decimal separator, which is quite different from yours). I am sure it's possible but still searching… Johnny Rosenberg -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
