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<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">User-defined Number Formats</title>
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<bookmark_value>numbers;user-defined formatting</bookmark_value>
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<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>
<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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<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>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149664" role="listitem" l10n="U">Choose <emph>Format - Cells - Numbers</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149260" role="listitem" l10n="U">In the <emph>Categories</emph> list box select "User-defined".</paragraph>
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<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>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152596" role="code" l10n="U">0.0,, "Million"</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144764" role="listitem" l10n="U">Click OK.</paragraph>
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<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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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154757" role="tablehead" l10n="U">.#,, "Million"</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147338" role="tablehead" l10n="U">0.0,, "Million"</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146920" role="tablehead" l10n="U">#,, "Million"</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147344" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10200000</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147003" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10.2 Million</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3166426" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10.2 Million</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155113" role="paragraph" l10n="U">10 Million</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150369" role="paragraph" l10n="U">500000</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145585" role="paragraph" l10n="U">.5 Million</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154486" role="paragraph" l10n="U">0.5 Million</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146114" role="paragraph" l10n="U">1 Million</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155810" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100000000</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153818" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100. Million</paragraph>
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<tablecell>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151241" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100.0 Million</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144771" role="paragraph" l10n="U">100 Million</paragraph>
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