Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas in Calc not showing results

Hi :)
I think saving a spreadsheet as a Csv strips out the formulae and replaces them with whatever the 
answer happened to be at the moment of saving.  


It's better to save an original version as Ods and then if you want other people to be able to edit 
and work with the sheet use 

File - "Save As ... "

to save in Xls format (that's Microsoft Excel (97/2000/Xp)" (or soemthing like that).  Avoid using 
the XlsX (MS 2007 or 2010 or 365, as all 3 of those are slightly different from each other).  


Regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 19:54
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas in Calc not showing results
>
> At 12:10 12/12/2012 -0500, Carl Paulsen wrote:
> > LO = 3.5.6.2 for Mac OS 10.6
> > AutoCalculate is on
> >
> > I'm trying to build a simple text concatenation (formula is =CONCATENATE("Dear ",Q2), though I 
> > also tried it as ="Dear " & Q2).  The formula only shows as the text of the formula, not the 
> > result of the formula.  Using the formula builder, it shows the correct result (in this case, 
> > "Dear Kate and Marc."  It's just that the result doesn't show in the cell.
>
> Remove the tick at Tools | Options...| LibreOffice Calc | View | Display | Formulas.
>
> >   My Tools menu doesn't contain Options as a choice (not even grayed out), so can't adjust that.
>
> Under Mac OS, this setting is at LibreOffice | Preferences | LibreOffice Calc | View | Display | 
> Formulas instead.
>
> > Finally, when I export to csv, where I should be able to see the formula results if they are 
> > being created, I can't even open the resulting csv file with LO (or anything else I have on 
> > hand).
>
> A CSV file is plain text, so you can certainly open it as a spreadsheet with LibreOffice Calc or 
> as text with LibreOffice Writer.  Remember that when you save as CSV, only the active sheet is 
> saved.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
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