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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">User-defined Number Formats</title>
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      <bookmark_value>formatting; user-defined numbers</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>number formats; millions</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3143268" role="heading" level="1"><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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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150400" role="paragraph">You can define your own number formats to display numbers in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc.</paragraph>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150767" role="paragraph">As an example, to display the number 10,200,000 as 10.2 Million:</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150868" role="listitem">Select the cells to which you want to apply a new, user-defined format.</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149664" role="listitem">Choose <emph>Format - Cells - Numbers</emph>.</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149260" role="listitem">In the <emph>Categories</emph> list box select "User-defined".</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148646" role="listitem">In the <emph>Format code</emph> text box enter the following code:</paragraph>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152596" role="code">0.0,, "Million"</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144764" role="listitem">Click OK.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155417" role="paragraph">The following table shows the effects of rounding, thousands delimiters (,), decimal delimiters (.) and the placeholders # and 0.</paragraph>
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               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147344" role="paragraph">10200000</paragraph>
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               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147003" role="paragraph">10.2 Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3166426" role="paragraph">10.2 Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155113" role="paragraph">10 Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150369" role="paragraph">500000</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145585" role="paragraph">.5 Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154486" role="paragraph">0.5 Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146114" role="paragraph">1 Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155810" role="paragraph">100000000</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153818" role="paragraph">100. Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151241" role="paragraph">100.0 Million</paragraph>
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            <tablecell>
               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144771" role="paragraph">100 Million</paragraph>
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