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by Imustaskforhelp 437 days ago
Oh the hatred I had , I was making a financial estimate for my maternal uncle who is an engineer

and I am not sure what the issue was , maybe it was leading 0 part because ending 0 part would be preserved , it happened like 2 years ago.

Also , I think the problem had actually been of libreoffice or whatever , oh yeah it was .00 , I wanted that .00 but it just removed it.

Like I said , I don't remember it. and I don't even remember how I fixed it , but I only remember the pain because it felt so simple yet it doesn't .... , I really wanted to use some python esq interface on something like libreoffice as well because my uncle had a pdf which had a column for the material code (like something like 1.1.2) and then it had a description and a name and I Had to copy material code from 1.1.2 and then paste it.

And he said that there was some other engineer in his department who had actually figured out where he would only type in 1.1.2 for example and on the next column, it would show up automatically , It was kind of crazy but I was thinking of creating a cloud service for such engineers which only had this (are there excel extensions ?) , or whatever because there are so many such engineers & my uncle would've definitely paid 10$ if it made his job easier since he always used to force some of us kids to do it for him. He just couldn't figure out how to do it himself and I don't blame him.