<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Calculates the value of a Roman number. The value range must be between 0 and 3999.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">ARABIC (Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text that represents a Roman number.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Converts a positive integer to a specified base into a text from the <help:popup Id="65619" Eid="zahlensystem">numbering system</help:popup>.</help:help-text> The digits 0-9 and the letters A-Z will be used.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> is a positive integer, which is to be converted.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Radix</span> indicates the base of the number system. It may be any positive integer between 2 and 36.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Minimum Length</span> determines the minimum length of the character sequence that has been created, and can be indicated optionally. If this parameter is passed, a text that is shorter than the indicated minimum length will be padded on the left with nulls.</p>
<p class="Head3">Example</p>
<p class="Paragraph">BASE(17;10;4) returns 0017 in the decimal system.<help:key-word value="decimal system" tag="kw66819_30" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph">BASE(17;2) returns 10001 in the binary system.<help:key-word value="binary system" tag="kw66819_29" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph">BASE(255;16;4) returns 00FF in the hexadecimal system.<help:key-word value="hexadecimal system" tag="kw66819_28" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Returns a numeric code for the first character in a text string.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">CODE(Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> refers to the text for which to return a numeric code of the first character.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Converts a <span class="T1">text</span> with characters from a <help:popup Id="65619" Eid="zahlensystem">Number System</help:popup> in the base <span class="T1">Radix</span> into a decimal number...</help:help-text> <span class="T1">Radix</span> must be placed in the range 2 till 36. Spaces and tabs are ignored, <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>the case sensitive of <span class="T1">Text</span> is equivalent.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If the <span class="T1">radix</span> is 16, <span class="T1">a</span> leading x or X or 0x or 0X and <span class="T1">an</span> appended h or H is disregarded. If the <span class="T1">Radix</span> is 2, <span class="T1">an</span> appended b or B is disregarded. Other characters that do not belong to the number system generate an error.</p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">DECIMAL(Text; Radix)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text that is to be converted. To tell the difference, for example, between a hexadecimal number like A1 and the reference to cell A1, you have to set the number in quotation marks, e.g. "A1" or "AFFE".</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Radix</span> indicates the base of the number system. It may be any positive integer between 2 and 36.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Converts a number to an amount in the currency format, rounded to a specified decimal place.</help:help-text> In the <span class="T1">value</span> field enter the number to be converted to currency. Optionally, you may enter the number of decimal places in the <span class="T1">decimals</span> field. If no value is specified, all numbers in currency format will be displayed with two decimal places.</p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">DOLLAR(value; decimals)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Value</span> is a number, a reference to a cell containing a number, or a formula which returns a number.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Decimal</span> is the number of decimal places.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">DOLLAR(367.456;2) returns $367.46. Use the decimal separator that corresponds to the <help:link Id="67896" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">current locale setting</help:link>.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Replaces part of a text string with a different text string.</help:help-text> This function can be used to replace both characters and numbers (which are automatically converted to text). The result of the function is always displayed as text. If you intend to perform further calculations with a number which has been replaced by text, you will need to convert it back to a number using the <help:link Id="66819" Eid="wert" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">VALUE</help:link> function.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Any text containing numbers must be enclosed in quotation marks if you don't <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>want it to be interpreted as a number and automatically converted to text.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This is where you can specify that a number be displayed with a fixed number of decimal places and with or without a thousands separator. This function can be used to apply an uniform format to a column of numbers.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> refers to the number to be formatted.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Decimals</span> refers to the number of decimal places to be displayed.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">T</span> (list of options) determines if the thousands separator is to be used. If T is a number not equal to 0, the thousands separator is suppressed. If T is equal to 0 or if T is missing altogether, the thousands separators of your <help:link Id="67896" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">current locale setting</help:link> are displayed.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">To find a certain string within a text, enter the text in the <span class="T1">find_text</span> field that you want to search for in the <span class="T1">within_text</span> field.</help:help-text> You can also define where to begin the search. The search term can be a number or any string of characters. The search is case-sensitive.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">To remove spaces that are in front of a string or align cell contents to the left, enter that particular string as <span class="T1">text</span> parameter.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">TRIM(Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> refers to text in which leading spaces are removed or to the cell in which the contents are aligned left.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Converts the string specified in the <span class="T1">Text</span> field to uppercase.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">UPPER(Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Text refers to the text in which lower case letters should be converted to capitals.</p>
<p class="Head3">Example</p>
<p class="Paragraph">UPPER("Good Morning") returns GOOD MORNING.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Capitalizes the first letter in a <span class="T1">text</span> string and all other letters after each space.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">PROPER(Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> refers to the text in which the first letters of words should be replaced with a capital.</p>
<p class="Head3">Example</p>
<p class="Paragraph">PROPER("sun microsystems") returns Sun Microsystems.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Compares two text strings and returns TRUE if they are exactly the same, FALSE otherwise.</help:help-text> This function is case-sensitive.</p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">IDENTICAL(text 1;text 2)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text 1</span> refers to the first text to compare.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text 2</span> is the second text to compare.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Converts all uppercase letters in a <span class="T1">text</span> string to lowercase.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">LOWER(Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> refers to the text in which capital letters should be replaced by lower case letters.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Returns the first character or the first <span class="T1">number</span> characters in a string.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">LEFT(text; number)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text of which the left part is to be determined.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> (optional) specifies the number of characters for the left part of the text. If this parameter is not defined, one character is returned.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Returns the length of a string including spaces.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">LEN(Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text whose length is to be determined.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Returns the last character or the last <span class="T1">number</span> of characters in a string.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">RIGHT(text; number)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text whose right text segment is to be specifyd.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> (optional) is the number of characters from the right part of the text.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Converts a number into a Roman number. The value range must be between 0 and 3999, the value of the modi is limited to between 0 and 4.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">ROMAN (Number; mode)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> is the number that is to be converted into a Roman numeral.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Mode</span> (list of options) indicates the degree of simplification. The higher the value, the greater is the simplification of the Roman number.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This function returns the position of a text segment within a character string.</help:help-text> You can set the start of the search as an option. The search text can be a number or any sequence of characters. The search is not case-sensitive.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">All non-printing characters are removed from the string.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">CLEAN(Text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> refers to the text from which to remove all non-printable characters.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This function converts a number to a blank text string.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">T(Value)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Value</span> is the value to be converted. Also a reference can be sent as a parameter. If the the referenced cell includes a number or a formula containing a numerical result, the result will be an empty string.</p>
<p class="Head3">Example</p>
<p class="Paragraph">T(12345) becomes an empty string "", if 12345 is formatted as a number. T("12345") returns 12345.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This function returns a text segment of a character string. They specify the starting position and the number of characters.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">MID(text; start; number)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text containing the characters to extract.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Start_num</span> is the position of the first character in the text to extract.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> specifies the number of characters in the part of the text.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This function transforms a number into text.</help:help-text> You enter the appearance of the text in the second parameter.</p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">TEXT(Number; Format)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> is the numerical value to be converted.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Format</span> is the text which defines the format. (The language set in the cell format will always be the standard for the output.)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Combines several text passages into one string.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you want to replace certain text segments by others, you can enter in the <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/><span class="T1">Text</span> field the text in which the text segment to be replaced is located. In the <span class="T1">Search text</span> field enter the text which is to be replaced by the text contained in the <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/><span class="T1">New text</span> field. With the <span class="T1">Occurrence</span> value indicate the number of occurrences for which the search text is to be replaced.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text in which text segments are to be exchanged.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Search text </span>is the text segment that is to be replaced (a number of times).</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">New text</span> is the text that is to replace the text segment.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Occurrence</span> (list of options) indicates how many occurrences of the search text are to be replaced. If this parameter is missing the search text is replaced throughout.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This function converts a text into a number.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">VALUE(text)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text to be converted to a number.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This function multiplies a character string in <span class="T1">Number</span> Copies.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">REPT(text; num_times)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Text</span> is the text to be repeated.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Num_times</span> is the number of repeats.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The result can be a maximum of 255 characters.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This function converts a number into a character according to the current code table.</help:help-text> The number can be a two-digit or three-digit natural number.</p>
<p class="Head3">Syntax</p>
<p class="Paragraph">CHAR(Number)</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Number</span> is a number between 1 and 255 representing the code value for the character.</p>
