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title="UNCONFIRMED - FORMATTING: Currency format should display $0.00 instead of -$0.00 or $(0.00)"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138872#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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title="UNCONFIRMED - FORMATTING: Currency format should display $0.00 instead of -$0.00 or $(0.00)"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138872">bug 138872</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:ralacroix@hydro.mb.ca" title="Robert Lacroix <ralacroix@hydro.mb.ca>"> <span class="fn">Robert Lacroix</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to m.a.riosv from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=138872#c2">comment #2</a>)
<span class="quote">> 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.</span >
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.</pre>
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