Libreoffice calculation [OT]

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 21:43 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 09:26 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > Got a sort of OT question...
> > 
> > In libreoffice using spreadsheet, I want to input a number in a cell and
> > have it multiply by 16.
> > 
> > I have tried =D3*16 and =sum(D3*16) and both get errors.
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas?  Obviously may contact me offlist and not bug the
> > list if know the answer.
> > 
> > thanks ahead of time,
> 
> Basic spreadsheet 101:
> 
> 	You cannot self-reference a cell in a calculation.  ie, you cannot put
> the expression: =D3*16  into cell D3.
> 
> 	If you put that expression in some other cell, then D3 needs to contain
> numeric data so that the multiplication can succeed.  I do it all the
> time in Excel and OpenOffice.  I can't believe it is broken in
> LibreOffice.....

So is there another way to do it, via =sum or something?  Surely there
is a way.

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Mike Chambers
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