Hi all. I'm having a great problem dealing with the number's format. I'll explain to you my situation:
We (at work) are using a private Administration program that export the grid component to and excel file format. OPenoffice.org recognize the file and it opens it well. The problem is about the format of number. As you can see in the sample provided to you, I need to sum the fourth column and openoffice can't do it because the number has the format like: 4,494.51 where the "," designs thousands separator, and "." the decimal separator. Because of this, I need to tell to Calc that the number format is that I shown to you in last paragraph for calculating a sumatory , but I can't. I've tried without any success: 1-Going to tools/ options/languages and deselecting the check in "Same as your regional settings (,)"[My regional settings arethe spanish defaults]: "," for decimal separator "." Thousand separator 2-Going to formating cells/numbers and selecting the code format don't do nothing because the exported data doesn't change, only the data entered manually from this next moment. Doing these things in Excel 2003 -------------------------------------------- For getting this procedure work in MS Excel we must select the column to be and go to DATA/Text in columns/fixed width (next)(next) clicking to Advanced and selecting the desired decimal separator and thousands separator. Finalizing the asistant you can make a Sum of the whole column. I don't know what to do for obtaining the same result in openoffice.org, any hints? ---- -- Pere Castañer Sardà Servei informàtic DIBOSCH S.L
sample.ods
Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
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