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Hi Rick,

On Friday, 2016-01-08 19:52:49 -0500, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

The category is called *"Metric."*

When conveying fractional values, such that 1.2345E-08 (which is
0.000,000,012,345), it would do so in a metric-relative way using the
standard milli (10^-3), micro (10^-6), nano (10^-9), pico (10^-12), and so
on...

In the example, the *Metric* display would cause the value to show up
as "*12,345
pu*" (pico-units) if the thousands separator was used.

Could you give some examples what you think how the format code actually
should look like?

There would be an
option to override the default "u" character in use, changing it into
something that may have significance for the cell, such as "s" or "seconds"
for seconds, "m" or "meters" for meters, and so on.

So, the unit itself would be a cell property, which replaces the generic "u"?

That sounds related to the feature branch Markus already mentioned.

An ability to lock in a working range would also exist, such as *"show
everything in nano-units"* so that everything is adjusted to that base.  In
such a case, the above example above would present as "*12.345 nu*" instead
of in its default *pu*.

Where/how should that "lock-in" happen? By applying a different number
format to that range?


One main problem with inventing new format code features is, that they
don't survive an Excel roundtrip unless Excel has the same feature.
I guess it doesn't.

  Eike

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