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26<topic id="textscalcguideformat_value_userdefxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">User-defined Number Formats</title>
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32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3143268">
33<bookmark_value>numbers;user-defined formatting</bookmark_value>
34<bookmark_value>formatting; user-defined numbers</bookmark_value>
35<bookmark_value>number formats; millions</bookmark_value>
36<bookmark_value>format codes; user-defined number formats</bookmark_value>
37</bookmark><comment>mw changed "numbers;"</comment>
38<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3143268" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U"><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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40<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150400" role="paragraph" l10n="U">You can define your own number formats to display numbers in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc.</paragraph>
41<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150767" role="paragraph" l10n="U">As an example, to display the number 10,200,000 as 10.2 Million:</paragraph>
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43<listitem>
44<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150868" role="listitem" l10n="U">Select the cells to which you want to apply a new, user-defined format.</paragraph>
45</listitem>
46<listitem>
47<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149664" role="listitem" l10n="U">Choose <emph>Format - Cells - Numbers</emph>.</paragraph>
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49<listitem>
50<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149260" role="listitem" l10n="U">In the <emph>Categories</emph> list box select "User-defined".</paragraph>
51</listitem>
52<listitem>
53<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148646" role="listitem" l10n="U">In the <emph>Format code</emph> text box enter the following code:</paragraph>
54<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152596" role="code" l10n="U">0.0,, "Million"</paragraph>
55</listitem>
56<listitem>
57<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144764" role="listitem" l10n="U">Click OK.</paragraph>
58</listitem>
59</list>
60<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155417" role="paragraph" l10n="U">The following table shows the effects of rounding, thousands delimiters (,), decimal delimiters (.) and the placeholders # and 0.</paragraph>
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64<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146971" role="tablehead" l10n="U">Number</paragraph>
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67<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154757" role="tablehead" l10n="U">.#,, "Million"</paragraph>
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69<tablecell>
70<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147338" role="tablehead" l10n="U">0.0,, "Million"</paragraph>
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72<tablecell>
73<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146920" role="tablehead" l10n="U">#,, "Million"</paragraph>
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78<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147344" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10200000</paragraph>
79</tablecell>
80<tablecell>
81<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147003" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10.2 Million</paragraph>
82</tablecell>
83<tablecell>
84<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3166426" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10.2 Million</paragraph>
85</tablecell>
86<tablecell>
87<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155113" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10 Million</paragraph>
88</tablecell>
89</tablerow>
90<tablerow>
91<tablecell>
92<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150369" role="paragraph" l10n="U">500000</paragraph>
93</tablecell>
94<tablecell>
95<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145585" role="paragraph" l10n="U">.5 Million</paragraph>
96</tablecell>
97<tablecell>
98<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154486" role="paragraph" l10n="U">0.5 Million</paragraph>
99</tablecell>
100<tablecell>
101<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146114" role="paragraph" l10n="U">1 Million</paragraph>
102</tablecell>
103</tablerow>
104<tablerow>
105<tablecell>
106<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155810" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100000000</paragraph>
107</tablecell>
108<tablecell>
109<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153818" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100. Million</paragraph>
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111<tablecell>
112<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151241" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100.0 Million</paragraph>
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114<tablecell>
115<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144771" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100 Million</paragraph>
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