also how do you switch columns?



For example I have columns A, B, C and I would like to put everything in A between B and C so B becomes A.

No responses? Is this something very simple so no one can be bothered?

Hi Metamag,

It is not simple, and it is not that no one is bothered, the reason is perhaps
No one has cone up with a solution yet.

I tried, and found what you observed was true. But cannot solve it. Looks like a bug, which only microsoft can fix.

Well, I hope it is added to their bug list then, it's a actually a pretty big bug for what this software is suppose to do.

And what about the column switching in my second post?

I guess you changed only the decimal separator to "," and the thousands separator is now the same with the decimal separator, which is not a bug, is a mistake. If you use "," as a decimal separator, and "." as thousands separator, in formatting the cell select 2 decimal places and check the option "Use 1000 separator (.)" , the entry 1441,75 will be displayed as 1.441,75.
If you keep "," as decimal AND thousands separator, AND you check the option "Use 1000 separator (,)" (notice that the option now has comma in the paranthesis), excel is confused, will consider that your entry is an integer with no decimals, because of using the comma as the 1000 AND (!!) decimals separator , thats why it shows ",00" to display the decimals......
As for switching between columns, there is no such concept in excel, as far as i know. Use VBA or do it manually.

No.

First, what you said is only relevant for number category, not currency category, if under number category(under format cells) you select "use 1000 Separator(,) you indeed get formatting like 1441,750,000.

Not only was this deselected by default so if I format the cell under number category I do get the correct format of 1441,75, but this option does not exist under currency category.

Also under system separator of course I changed to comma for both decimal and thousands the first time.

Nothing you said is relevant, the problem still stands.

P.S.
I guess I could artificially "fix" this problem by formatting the autosum as number category and in the column next to it just type the currency, but that's not a real solution.

That's the point where the problem starts..
If you check the custom category, the format you used when you used comma for both separators , even for currency, is saved there... it will look like : [$$-409]#,##0,00 for US dollars. Means that every time you use currency format, excel will use this custom format.
You should delete this format from the list, otherwise this is the format excel will use when you format to currency.

You should learn more about formatting before saying that "Nothing you said is relevant". From what i see, you understood nothing from what i said.

Just go to advanced options, use different separators for decimal and thousands, then in the custom formats list, select the wrong formats and delete them so they will not be automatically used to format the currency .

Where is that, is it called "custom formats" or something else?