Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc airithmetic snafu

Or perhaps leave the actual number in the first column and just use a 
cell format for the "km".

i.e.

1) Leave 2.4 in the cell
2) ctrl+1 (cmd+1 mac) to open format cell
3) then in the Format Code type " km" behind the number format.

And now your 2.4 will show "2.4 km" in the cell.

And you can do your arithmetical calculations on the cell as you've only 
changed the visual number format.

:-)

B.

On 28.11.2021 14:09, Remy Gauthier wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> If you do not like adding columns, you could do the following:
>
> 1) Select everything (CTRL-A)
> 2) Do a search & replace to remove all the "km" indications. This
> should also convert the entry in the cells to numbers at the same time.
> 3) Keeping what is still selected, go to Cell > Format (CTRL-1), and
> set the number format to User defined with the format as # ##0.0" km".
> This will have your numbers displayed with the proper units.
>
> I hope this helps.
> Rémy.
>
> Le dimanche 28 novembre 2021 à 08:37 -0600, Michael H a écrit :
> > Re: Units out of the data.
> >
> > 1. The formula =Value(Left(C1,Find(" ",C1))) will be insensitive to
> > longer--129.4 km-- or less specific--7 km-- distances.
> >
> > 2. When I remove units from a list, usually I'm working a large
> > amount of
> > data and find that the whole spreadsheet works better when source
> > data like
> > this isn't the result of formula. That is, it doesn't take so long to
> > refresh when I'm only waiting on 10,000 calculations, and not
> > 10,000,000
> > calculations.
> >
> > So to avoid those annoying long refresh times, instead of creating
> > the
> > source data with formula I copy the column to a new one, ensure there
> > are
> > adequate new columns behind it, then convert the column to data with
> > "Data
> > -> Text to Columns" and choose to break on space only (in your case,
> > sometimes I have to list out the first letter of units, but then I
> > lose the
> > units, so instead I find/replace the new column to introduce tab
> > characters
> > before doing the text to column action. (And if you trust yourself to
> > recognize mistakes in the text to columns steps before "undo" is
> > gone,
> > copying the column to another one isn't required.)
> >
> > 3.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 11:12 AM Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <
> > hylton@conacher.co.za> wrote:
> >
> > > HI ANDREW,
> > >
> > > On 2021/11/26 16:38, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:
> > > > Left will return a string so convert to a number using value...
> > > > Something like this
> > > >
> > > > =Value(left(....))
> > >
> > > THANK YOU Works as expected,now on to the next formula Challenge
> > >
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> > > > On Nov 26, 2021, at 9:12 AM, "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)"
> > > > <hylton@conacher.co.za <mailto:hylton@conacher.co.za>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >      Hi,
> > > >
> > > >      Using LO7.2.2.2  <http://7.2.2.2>  Calc on iMac 11.6.1(Big
> > > > Sur).
> > > >
> > > >      I have a data column that ends in alphabetic letters i.e.
> > > >
> > > >          C      |  D
> > > >      2| 2.4 km|    2.4
> > > >      3| 4.8 km|    4.8
> > > >
> > > >      As the ' km' can't be added in column C, I used the LEFT
> > > > formula to
> > > only
> > > >      extract the first 3 digits, namely =LEFT(C2,3). This works
> > > wonderfully
> > > >      in column D, BUT whilst not shown on the spreadsheet, the
> > > > numbers are
> > > >      shown in-between double quotes if one looks at the formula,
> > > > in
> > > column D,
> > > >      with the Function Wizard, which again does not enable the
> > > > number to
> > > be
> > > >      added, averaged etc.
> > > >
> > > >      Both C, D columns are formatted as Number with a single
> > > > decimal point
> > > >      and there will be no -ve number.
> > > >
> > > >      What am I missing, and where to rectify it?
> > > >
> > > >      Regards
> > > >      Hylton
> > >
> > >
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