Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC convert text to numbers

On 11/10/2013 07:05 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 18:43 10/11/2013 -0800, Joel Madero wrote:
> > Why is everyone straying away from the fact that there is a simple 
> > extension developed by Cor (one of our brilliant devs) which 
> > accomplishes all of this? Just curious if there's a benefit to doing 
> > these formula techniques instead of just pushing a button on a nice gui
>
> Oh, that's easy:
> 1. List subscribers will have read earlier suggestions and are 
> intelligent enough to ignore later ones if they prefer.
> 2. Different methods are appropriate in different circumstances - and 
> subscribers other than the original questioner may find them helpful 
> to their different needs.
> 3. It's important that questionable statements made on a public list 
> read by many (and indeed archived) are challenged.
>
> (Anyone is welcome to trash this message if desired!)
>
> Brian Barker
:-D Fair enough. I was actually just curious if there is a benefit to 
the formulas over the text to number as I always use it but would change 
if there was a benefit to some other method :-D

Thanks for explaining!


All the best,
Joel

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