=Recall in Lotus and Quattro Pro you could enter for text fields a single quote, double quote or carat that would set cell alignment to left/right/center. Libreoffice doesn't seem to support that, and have to manually set alignment. Tried entering numbers directly in calc and got these results. A</span>B =a1+1 123<span style="display:inline-block; font-size:1pt; width:34.000000pt">0;124straight 123Right aligned</font> '123= 60;124single '123Left aligned `123= 60;124apostrophy123Right aligned \u201c123</span>#VALUE!Gives error in formula ^123#VALUE! Does the web page have single quote or apostrophy or UTF8 simple or something else? Thanks So, with a single quote or apostrophy it is treated as a number but does change alignment? On 8 Apr 2022 at 7:51, Steve Edmonds wrote: Date sent:60;Fri, 8 Apr 2022 07:51:20 +1200 Subject: ;Re: [libreoffice-users] Clearing formatting. To: 0;users@global.libreoffice.org From:  Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
The data is from part of a table on a public page but created in> response to entering a street address. There are no issues when I paste the data if I select "detect special numbers" and there are no issues processing the numbers preceded with a ' in a calculation. I started wondering why LO doesn't see '123 as a format it can change or is it an over riding format that LO won't change and when I have a format like '123 how do I get it back to a number. If I type '123 into a cell, Format>Cells.. tells me it is a number, I can use it in a formula but can't sum it. If you format a cell as text (right click or Format>Cells..) and type in $123.00 you have some text as expected. If you delete the $ you have 123.00. If you now Format>Cells.. and select Number>General you would expect this to become a number format, but LO inserts the ' so it becomes '123.00 and changes the cell format to number but forcing the contents to remain as text. From this point my question arose as to how to remove the ' so the contents of the cell became a number, and which Brian solved for me. Steve On 07/04/2022 13:18, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:> > Note: That the "`" does work. In my testing I must haveenter ' instead of ` and the is why the "`" didn't work since it was char(39) instead of char(96)..> > Just wondering if the data is from a public page or some kind of private page?? I have a spreadsheet that uses the external data link to a web site to get the latest covid stats for the US states, D.C. and territories. Than have macro that processes it into rest of sheet.> > Would be interesting to see how the spreadsheet processes in the ` with the number. When I type in a> > number with a ` at the front, it shows that value as a text> > field and is left justified.. On 6 Apr 2022 at 10:58, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:</font> From: ="Michael D. Setzer II" <msetzerii@gmail.com> To:  Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>, =users@global.libreoffice.org> > Date sent:Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:58:56 +1000 Subject:=Re: [libreoffice-users] Clearing formatting. Send reply to:msetzerii@gmail.com Priority:normal=On 6 Apr 2022 at 10:13, Steve Edmonds wrote:</font> Date sent:60;Wed, 6 Apr 2022 10:13:51 +1200 To: 0;users@global.libreoffice.org> >> From:  Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> Subject: ;[libreoffice-users] Clearing formatting.> >>Hi, just wondering if there is an easy way to clear formatting of the style '2892 where the apostrophe is used. When I paste data from a web page LO inserts the apostrophe by default. I realise there are options on pasting to have numbers pasted as text, but my query is in regards converting '2892 to the number 2892.</span>Not sure this would work. Assuming you are using text formatting dialog option. You could click on the other option in addition to whatever filtering options you are using. Then put the</span> apostrophe in the position after the other. You will end up with a column with the blanks where the> >> apostrophy was. Would then just delete that column. That does assume that all numbers in column have> >> apostrophy and that other cells don't have apostrophy's? Another option that might work for you.> >> Past data as currently done. In another column to right put formula> >> No leading " an assuming D1 is cell with '2982 format numbers. Tried to match with "`" but it didn't work?? Had to use code and ascii value for `' \u201c=IF(CODE(LEFT(D1,1))=39,VALUE(MID(D1,2,20)),d1) If all numbers have ` you could just use.> >> No leading " \u201c=VALUE(MID(D1,2,20)) Then copy the formula going down. Then highlight. Ctrl-C, and the Shift-Ctrl-V over original data, rather than doing one cell at a time. Perhaps one of those would work with your data.</font> Good Luck. Have a nice day.I cannot Format Cells... format as number or clear direct formatting or find and replace the '. I can Ctl-x, Ctl-Shft-v and paste and the ' is cleared. Steve -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy+------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. 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