From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Formatting a calculated cell entry as currency
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 20:00:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc5pagpq.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvwunc7a.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Thu, 6 Jun 2013 17:47:37 -0400")
Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>
>> I've got a simple cell calculation, =@2 * 40
>>
>> If @2 contained 10, is there anyway to force this to show as $400.00? I've
>> combed through the info file, and if it is there I'm blind.
>>
>
> This seems to work (apart from the alignment):
>
> | a | b |
> |---+--------|
> | 1 | $8.25 |
> | 2 | $16.50 |
> | 3 | $24.75 |
> #+TBLFM: $2 = 8.25*$1;$%.2f
For David's benefit, if alignment matters, you could use something like
";$%6.2f" for the formatting specification (with 6 changed to something
that is appropriate for the scale of values you expect and whether you
like a space after the $).
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2013-06-06 21:20 Formatting a calculated cell entry as currency J. David Boyd
2013-06-06 21:47 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-07 19:00 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
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