You
can specify the formatting options for one or more
selected cells.
Click . - Category
- Select a number category from
the list, and then select a formatting
style in the Format field.
- Format
- Select how you want the contents of the
one or more selected cells
to be displayed. The code for the selected option is displayed in
the Format Code field.
- Currency categories
- Click the arrow to select a currency,
and then scroll to the
top of the Format field to view the formatting
options for the currency.
Note: The format code for currencies uses
the form [xxx-nnn], where xxx is the currency symbol, and
nnn the country code. Special banking symbols, such as EUR (for Euro),
do not require the country code. The currency format is not dependent
on the language that you select in the Language field.
- Language
- Specifies the language setting
for the selected fields. With the
language set to Default, IBM® Lotus®
Symphony™ automatically applies
the number formats associated with the system default language. Select
any language to fix the settings for the selected cells.
- The
language setting ensures that the date and currency formats
are preserved even when the document is opened in an operating system
that uses a different default language setting.
- Decimal places
- Enter the number of zeroes that you want
to display after the
decimal point.
- Leading zeroes
- Enter
the number of zeroes that you want to display
in front of the decimal point.
- Negative
numbers red
- Changes the font color of negative numbers to
red.
- Thousands separator
- Inserts
a separator between thousands. The type of separator that
is used depends on your language settings.
- Format
code
- Displays the number format code for the selected format.
You can
also enter a custom format. The following options are only available
for user-defined number formats.
- Add
- Adds the number format code that you
entered to the user-defined
category.
- Remove
- Deletes the selected number format.
The changes are effective
after you restart Lotus Symphony.
- Edit Comment
- Adds a comment
to the selected number format.