FormatNum

2000.05.06 

 

http://www.barefeetware.com/appleworks/formatnum/

Description

 

This “FormatNum” AppleWorks function script translates a numeric formula result into the equivalent text string.

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by Neil Taylor

 

This script was not developed by BareFeetWare. Contact the author directly with any questions and feedback.

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Detail
FormatNum is a function script that takes a numeric formula and returns that number as the text version.

It takes the form:-
=MACRO("Formatnum",2,"astext", formula)

Formula is any formula which returns a numeric value. The function will return a text string containing the wordy form of the number.

Samples
If a formula calculates out to 123456.789 the MACRO("Formatnum" ...) function script will return: “one hundred twenty three thousand, four hundred fifty six point 789”.

More examples:

input

MACRO("Formatnum",2,"astext", input+0)
10 ten
25000.56 twenty five thousand, point 56
47 fourty seven
100000000 one hundred million
200000094 two hundred million, ninety four
  Zero


Limitations
Numbers above a quadrillion (1,000,000,000) will not be calculated. “Formula” cannot be just a cell number (limitation of AppleWorks 5.0) it must be a formula. The workaround for it is to, for example, add zero (A1+0 instead of just A1).

Requirements
This script works with AppleWorks 5. It has not been tested with AppleWorks 6.

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