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36         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">User-defined Number Formats</title>
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41<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3143268"><bookmark_value>numbers;user-defined formatting</bookmark_value>
42      <bookmark_value>formatting; user-defined numbers</bookmark_value>
43      <bookmark_value>number formats; millions</bookmark_value>
44      <bookmark_value>format codes; user-defined number formats</bookmark_value>
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47                 oldref="26"><variable id="format_value_userdef"><link href="text/scalc/guide/format_value_userdef.xhp" name="User-defined Number Formats">User-defined Number Formats</link>
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49      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150400" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="1">You can define your own number formats to display numbers in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc.</paragraph>
50      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150767" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="2">As an example, to display the number 10,200,000 as 10.2 Million:</paragraph>
51      <list type="ordered">
52         <listitem>
53            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150868" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="3">Select the cells to which you want to apply a new, user-defined format.</paragraph>
54         </listitem>
55         <listitem>
56            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149664" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="4">Choose <emph>Format - Cells - Numbers</emph>.</paragraph>
57         </listitem>
58         <listitem>
59            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149260" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="5">In the <emph>Categories</emph> list box select "User-defined".</paragraph>
60         </listitem>
61         <listitem>
62            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148646" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="6">In the <emph>Format code</emph> text box enter the following code:</paragraph>
63            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152596" role="code" l10n="U" oldref="7">0.0,, "Million"</paragraph>
64         </listitem>
65         <listitem>
66            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144764" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="8">Click OK.</paragraph>
67         </listitem>
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69      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155417" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="9">The following table shows the effects of rounding, thousands delimiters (,), decimal delimiters (.) and the placeholders # and 0.</paragraph>
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73               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146971" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="10">Number</paragraph>
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76               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154757" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="11">.#,, "Million"</paragraph>
77            </tablecell>
78            <tablecell>
79               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147338" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="12">0.0,, "Million"</paragraph>
80            </tablecell>
81            <tablecell>
82               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146920" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="13">#,, "Million"</paragraph>
83            </tablecell>
84         </tablerow>
85         <tablerow>
86            <tablecell>
87               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147344" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="14">10200000</paragraph>
88            </tablecell>
89            <tablecell>
90               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147003" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="15">10.2 Million</paragraph>
91            </tablecell>
92            <tablecell>
93               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3166426" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="16">10.2 Million</paragraph>
94            </tablecell>
95            <tablecell>
96               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155113" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="17">10 Million</paragraph>
97            </tablecell>
98         </tablerow>
99         <tablerow>
100            <tablecell>
101               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150369" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="18">500000</paragraph>
102            </tablecell>
103            <tablecell>
104               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145585" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="19">.5 Million</paragraph>
105            </tablecell>
106            <tablecell>
107               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154486" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="20">0.5 Million</paragraph>
108            </tablecell>
109            <tablecell>
110               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146114" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="21">1 Million</paragraph>
111            </tablecell>
112         </tablerow>
113         <tablerow>
114            <tablecell>
115               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155810" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="22">100000000</paragraph>
116            </tablecell>
117            <tablecell>
118               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153818" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="23">100. Million</paragraph>
119            </tablecell>
120            <tablecell>
121               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151241" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="24">100.0 Million</paragraph>
122            </tablecell>
123            <tablecell>
124               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144771" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="25">100 Million</paragraph>
125            </tablecell>
126         </tablerow>
127      </table>
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