If you need to get the numeric value of a number or expression, this is done with
ABS() in both Excel and Calc.
For
Microsoft Excel it looks like this:
For
OpenOffice Calc it looks like this:
For some reason Microsoft has decided to have localized function names, so for non-English versions of Excel, you need to use the translated function names. This is as far as I have gotten, finding the localized function names for this chapter:
Catalan | ABS() |
Czech | ABS() |
Danish | ABS() |
Dutch | ABS() |
English | ABS() |
Finnish | ITSEISARVO() |
French | ABS() |
Galician | ABS() |
German | ABS() |
Hungarian | ABS() |
Italian | ABS() |
Norwegian | ABS() |
Polish | MODUŁ.LICZBY() |
Portuguese (BR) | ABS() |
Portuguese (PT) | ABS() |
Russian | ABS() |
Spanish | ABS() |
Swedish | ABS() |
Turkish | MUTLAK() |