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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Formatting a calculated cell entry as currency
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:47:37 -0400
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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):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
| a | b      |
|---+--------|
| 1 | $8.25  |
| 2 | $16.50 |
| 3 | $24.75 |
#+TBLFM: $2 = 8.25*$1;$%.2f
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-- 
Nick