Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Currency conversion/display in calc

Hi :)
I think you might be over-complicating it?  Just typign the number in as a number and letting the 
formatting do it's magic seems a much easier route!  
Regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
> To: LibreOffice Användare <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Saturday, 9 March 2013, 12:54
> Subject: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Currency conversion/display in calc
>
> Same mistake as usual, sending my replies privately. I will never
> learn, I'm quite sure of that now…
>
> Anyway, here it is again, to the list this time:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
> Date: 2013/3/9
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Currency conversion/display in calc
> To: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
>
>
> 2013/3/9 Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>:
> > Hi.
> > If I type or paste $2,441.99 into a cell in calc (3.6) it is left aligned.
> > If I right click format cell it states number-general.
> > If I divide it by 2 I get #value!
> >
> > How do I get LO to recognise this as a number. I found a long winded way,
> > format it as currency and remove the ' that LO puts in front.
> > Steve
>
> I think a macro could do that for you and I was even thinking of
> writing one, but if it should be useful no matter what locale settings
> you have, the macro needs to know things like decimal- and thousands
> separator (for example in my country we use space for thousands
> separator and comma for decimal separator, which is quite different
> from yours). I am sure it's possible but still searching…
>
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
>
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