On 02/16/2014 02:36 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 11:27 16/02/2014 -0800, Tom Williams wrote: >> I selected cells "B2..B5" and used the "Format/Cells" function to >> change the format to a currency format. I chose the "-$1,234.00" in >> red format. The numbers in column B were changed accordingly. Then, >> my friend wanted only the first cell with a number to have a dollar >> sign and the numbers below it to NOT have a dollar sign. So, I >> selected cells "B3..B5" and used the "Format/Cells" function to >> change the format. When the "Format Cells" window appeared, the >> "Currency" number format was selected, as expected. I went to the >> "Format code" box and simply removed the "$$" references, leaving the >> rest of the format code intact. The Category immediately changed to >> "User Defined", which is fine. >> >> Here's the problem: after the category changes to "User Defined", >> the modified format code, which is still displayed, doesn't apply to >> the selected cells ... > > Nothing happens until you confirm by clicking OK, of course. But if > you mean that the format didn't change even after you clicked OK, then > the obvious first possibility is that you had made an error in > modifying the string in the "Format code" box and had created > something that was not a valid format code. In this case, the format > of the selected cells would not change and no new format example would > be created in the User-defined category. (You can test this by > experiment.)
Thanks for posting this. Duh!!!! :) Since no message of any kind was issued telling me the modified format might be invalid, it didn't occur to me that I was breaking the format code. I'll experiment with this. Thanks! Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
