Issue 25099

Summary: Calc Number Formatting: add the ability to format decimal fractions
Product: Calc Reporter: geofffarrell <gfarrell>
Component: uiAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 1.1   
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Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux, all   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Description geofffarrell 2004-02-05 09:59:04 UTC
Presently, a number in a Calc cell can be formatted to display in a user-defined
manner, provided it is equal to 1 or greater, OR zero or below.  For example, a
cell containing the value 1,000,000 will display as '1M' when given the
user-defined format of _0,,"M"_ (minus the underscores).  However, while Calc
provides the comma as a 'thousands' divisor to achieve this, it doesn't have a
corresponding 'thousands' multiplier to display decimal fractions in a
user-defined format.  For example, there seems to be no way of making '0.001'
appear as '1m' (as you would if dealing with a small electric current - 1mA). 
This would be a very useful feature to have in Calc.  This was prompted by a
user's request here:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20827#20827

A 'thousands' multiplier - such as '*' (an asterisk) - could be used instead of
a comma to achieve this 'multiplier' effect, or a switch - say, '!'
(exclamation) - could be used to reverse the effect of commas in user-defined
formats, turning them into multipliers.  The former would look like _0*"m"_ and
the latter would look like _0!,"m"_ to make 0.001 display as  '1m'.  Similarly,
_0***"n"_ and _0!,,,"n"_ would make 0.000000001 display as '1n'.  Either would
be suitable methods, although the asterisk, with its 'multiplier' mnemonic,
would perhaps be more logical.

A search on 'number format' for Calc in IssueZilla returned eight hits: 6761,
15756, 18134, 20396, 22345, 23236, 23364 and 23839.  None of these were relevant
to this issue.
Comment 1 frank 2004-02-05 10:16:56 UTC
Hi Bettina,

one for you.

Frank
Comment 2 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:57:38 UTC
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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Comment 3 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:44:12 UTC
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".