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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / October 2006Force English formatting
I have an application used by both English and European clients. This is significant because often when European clients are entering Data into the TextBoxes, they will accidentally enter it in the format that they are used to: 1,000.00 in EU formatting = 1.000,00. This of course screws up my whole application. How should I go about safe-guarding this from happening? More Info: What I'm looking for is not a way to safe-guard entering the info in the TxtBox wrong, but more of a way to convert it if it is sitting in the cell wrong upon Worksheet Open... Some European clients enter data in Europe where that is the acceptible format, and then when it's opened in the US, the data opens as 1000,50 instead of 1000.50, and it crashes my application. Justin3...@yahoo.com wrote: > I have an application used by both English and European clients. This > is significant because often when European clients are entering Data [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > How should I go about safe-guarding this from happening? Be sure that the cell is not text then Excel will change it when you open it in the US Here is a formula to convert the textvalue in I2 to US =IF(ISERR(I2*1),IF(ISERR("1.2"*1),SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(I2,",",""),".",",")*1,SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(I2,".",""),",",".")*1),I2*1)  SignatureRegards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl > More Info: What I'm looking for is not a way to safe-guard entering > the info in the TxtBox wrong, but more of a way to convert it if it is [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> How should I go about safe-guarding this from happening? Ron, Won't ISERR("1.2"*1) always return FALSE regardless of the entry in I2? At least it seems to for me. That being the case, may I ask what is its function in your formula? SignaturePuzzled Sandy In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland and the crowning place of kings sandymann2@mailinator.com Replace@mailinator.com with @tiscali.co.uk > Be sure that the cell is not text then Excel will change it when you open > it in the US [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>> >>> How should I go about safe-guarding this from happening? Hi Sandy "1.2"*1 give a error on my Dutch machine because we use 1,2 This way the If statment know what to do On my Dutch machine the English text 123.45 will be the value 123,45 On my English machine the Dutch text 123,45 will be value 123.45 SignatureRegards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl > Ron, > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >>>> >>>> How should I go about safe-guarding this from happening? Hi Ron, Ah Yes! I see now - an international formula - clever SignatureRegards, Sandy In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland and the crowning place of kings sandymann2@mailinator.com Replace@mailinator.com with @tiscali.co.uk > Hi Sandy > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > On my Dutch machine the English text 123.45 will be the value 123,45 > On my English machine the Dutch text 123,45 will be value 123.45 Hi Sandy >an international formula - clever We (Norman and me) use it in the Beta DataRefiner add-in http://www.rondebruin.nl/datarefiner.htm SignatureRegards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl > Hi Ron, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> On my Dutch machine the English text 123.45 will be the value 123,45 >> On my English machine the Dutch text 123,45 will be value 123.45
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