[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 138872] FORMATTING: Currency format should display $0.00 instead of -$0.00 or $(0.00)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138872

--- Comment #4 from Robert Lacroix <ralacroix at hydro.mb.ca> ---
(In reply to m.a.riosv from comment #2)
> The only approximation it's to set up the option:
> Menu/Tools/LibreOffiace calc/Calculate - General calculation - Precision as
> show.
> So you can avoid the ROUND() function.

That's an interesting suggestion, but it doesn't work: -.0001 still displays as
-$0.00 in currency format.

What's more, the proposed cure is worse than the disease. With 2 decimals of
calculation precision, apportioning a $10,000.00 expense into parts rounds the
parts to the nearest $100.00

And "calculation: precision as shown" is a global setting, not a file setting.
This suggestion would be pretty deleterious to a beginner and it's a sneaky way
to damage a bunch of financial spreadsheets. Good thing I've got > 40 years
professional experience with computers. I can understand this as a misguided
attempt to help Engineers work with significant figures, but can someone tell
me in which universe this setting would even be desirable to use with currency
formatting?

I am not trying to avoid using the ROUND() function where it's appropriate. I
want calculations to use full machine precision for multiplication and
addition, and to round values for display purposes. I think someone did not
read the title. It says the format should DISPLAY a -$0.00 value without a
minus sign.

ROUND() is just a workaround for this display artifact.

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