Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles mess

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:02:44 +0100
Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:

> This thing happens in both Apache OpenOffice Calc and LibreOffice Calc
> which makes me thing I did something wrong, but after almost a year of
> debugging and trying some different approaches, I still have no idea what
> is going on.
>
> I have a few styles that I made, but one of them keeps messing around.
> There are three cell that use this style, but only if the value is
> negative. When the value is positive, the numbers are supposed to be
> displayed in some custom red colour and when it's negative the colour is
> supposed to be some custom green (indicating that I am below budget, which
> in this case is good, hence green…).
>
> I use one style for each of these conditions, since I don't, and don't want
> to, use the standard [RED] and [GREEN] colours. The ”below zero” style is
> called ”UnderTot” and the ”Above zero” one is called ”ÖverTot”. The one
> that is messing with me is ”UnderTot”. I use conditional formatting for
> this.
>
> Here are the number formats:
> ÖverTot: "+"# ##0,00" "[$kr-41D]
> Example: +2 345,67 kr
> Colour: Custom red.
>
> UnderTot: # ##0,00" "[$kr-41D]
> Example: -2 345,67 kr
> Colour: Custom green.
>
> Steps:
> Make sure at least one of the three cells has a negative value.
> Save the file.
> Close the file.
> Open the file.
> If it still looks right, enter a new value in one of the three cells.
> Now the cell format of the ”UnderTot” style changed. Last time I tested,
> the format code was changed to ”Standard”, but different things happens
> different times.
> All the other styles works perfectly.
> The ”UnderTot” style is linked to a stylle called ”Under”, but ”Under”
> works perfectly.
>
> It's not just the format of the cells that are changed, I verified that the
> style actually changed itself.
>
> I just want some ideas what could have been wrong. I am sure I did
> something wrong but I lack more ideas what to look for, so any kind of idea
> is welcome.
> Thanks in advance!
>
> If someone wants the file for testing, let me know. I guess I can't attach
> it to this message anyway, so I won't even try that.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

I rarely use styles in calc so this response may be invalid for you.

I notice there is no "-" for UnderTot as you showed.  Is this intentional?

> Here are the number formats:
> ÖverTot: "+"# ##0,00" "[$kr-41D]
> Example: +2 345,67 kr
> Colour: Custom red.
>
> UnderTot: # ##0,00" "[$kr-41D]                <<<<<<<<  no "-" >>>>>>>>
> Example: -2 345,67 kr
> Colour: Custom green.

Tom

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