Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: treating text as zero

Hi :)
Is it possible to write this into a custom format?  So that all empty cells would automatically 
have the xxx.xx until someone started typing?  

It seems like something that a database form might do more easily but i'm not sure it's worth the 
time setting all that up.  So, could Calc do something like that?  

I'm not sure that is what the op is looking for but it might help if it's easy.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Miss Keating <MissKeating@comcast.net>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 17:10
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] calc: treating text as zero
>
> Is there any way to force calc to treat text in a cell as equivalent to zero when a number is 
> expected? I always thought that this was the normal presumption, but it appears not to be, at 
> least for LO 3.5.7.2, Build ID: 3215f89-f603614-ab984f2-7348103-1225a5b under Win7.
>
> In spreadsheets imported from Twin (remember MS_DOS?) I have many cells marked "xxx.xx", which 
> indicate to the human operator that if there is to be a numerical entry there, it must be manually 
> supplied, as opposed to being automatically calculated or transferred. Neither blanks nor 
> numerical zeros provide the same visual clues.
>
>
> t.r. jackson
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