Thanks, Tom.
Yep, I did save as ODS, then as CSV. And yes, I expect the formulas to
save in CSV as the value they were when saving. That's why I saved to
CSV in the first place. I wanted to see if the formulas were being
saved as the value and just not displaying that way. Unfortunately, I
wasn't able to open the saved CSV file.
See next post.
Carl
On 12/12/12 3:26 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I think saving a spreadsheet as a Csv strips out the formulae and replaces them
with whatever the answer happened to be at the moment of saving.
It's better to save an original version as Ods and then if you want other
people to be able to edit and work with the sheet use
File - "Save As ... "
to save in Xls format (that's Microsoft Excel (97/2000/Xp)" (or soemthing like
that). Avoid using the XlsX (MS 2007 or 2010 or 365, as all 3 of those are slightly
different from each other).
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Brian Barker <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 19:54
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas in Calc not showing results
At 12:10 12/12/2012 -0500, Carl Paulsen wrote:
LO = 3.5.6.2 for Mac OS 10.6
AutoCalculate is on
I'm trying to build a simple text concatenation (formula is =CONCATENATE("Dear ",Q2), though I also
tried it as ="Dear " & Q2). The formula only shows as the text of the formula, not the result of
the formula. Using the formula builder, it shows the correct result (in this case, "Dear Kate and
Marc." It's just that the result doesn't show in the cell.
Remove the tick at Tools | Options...| LibreOffice Calc | View | Display |
Formulas.
My Tools menu doesn't contain Options as a choice (not even grayed out), so
can't adjust that.
Under Mac OS, this setting is at LibreOffice | Preferences | LibreOffice Calc |
View | Display | Formulas instead.
Finally, when I export to csv, where I should be able to see the formula
results if they are being created, I can't even open the resulting csv file
with LO (or anything else I have on hand).
A CSV file is plain text, so you can certainly open it as a spreadsheet with
LibreOffice Calc or as text with LibreOffice Writer. Remember that when you
save as CSV, only the active sheet is saved.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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