Re: [office-formula] DOLLAR?

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi Patrick,

On Tuesday, 2009-12-01 17:21:36 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Is there any reason to mention that DOLLAR is a text function under the  
> introduction to financial functions?

It is considered to be a text function. It converts a number to some
text. IMHO it should not be mentioned for financial functions at all,
because it isn't.

> It occurs under the listing of text functions.

DOLLAR is listed as text function because it converts to Text.

  Eike

-- 
Automatic string conversions considered dangerous. They are the GOTO statements
of spreadsheets.  --Robert Weir on the OpenDocument formula subcommittee's list.

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