Xbasic

Office::ExcelDocumentAddCustomNumericFormat Method

Syntax

N AddCustomNumericFormat(C FormatString)

Arguments

FormatStringCharacter

An Excel format expression. The contents of the format string must be a valid format expression for Excel. Consult Microsoft's documentation for rules for valid Excel format expressions.

Returns

ResultNumeric

Returns the index for the Number Format. This index can be used with the CustomNumberFormat() method to retrieve the format.

Description

Add a new numeric format to the document.

Example

dim excel as Office::ExcelDocument
dim formatIndex as N = excel.AddCustomNumericFormat("0 ??/??")
? formatIndex
= 166

? excel.CustomNumericFormat(formatIndex)
= "0 ??/??"

See Also