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

Hi,

Miss Keating schrieb
> Is there any way to force calc to treat text in a cell as equivalent to
> zero when a number is expected?

Yes, you can apply the function N before you do further calculation.
The function N returns 0 for a text and the number itself for a number. 
The cells should not have any error-value.

If you have a bunch of those cells, I would add a new sheet and use the 
formula =N(reference to cell in old sheet) for all cells. And then do 
calculations like sum, average, or whatever you need on the new sheet.

 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.

Values that can be converted without problems are converted 
automatically in much case. Problems might come because of local 
interpreting of decimal separator or date. That was done for former 
Excel users. In other cases, for example in the function PRODUCT, not 0 
but 1 is used. So it is always safer not to trust automatically 
conversion, but do conversion yourself.

Kind regards
Regina


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