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Subject: Re: [office] Data Grid Size element proposal


Hi Andreas,

On Monday, 2008-12-01 18:06:55 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> > OO.o 3.0 since it has more columns.
> > 
> > A1..E1 contain 1..5.
> > AMJ is the last colume.
> > A2 is set to "=AMJ1" and copied to B2..E2.
> > 
> > A1 = 0 and B1..E1 say "#REF!" and are set to "=REF!".
> 
> So the users asked OOo to copy a formula and OOo silently changes the
> formula into an error string _without_alerting the user?

The result displays #REF!, which is a standard error displayed for
references errors. Behavior is the same in Excel.

> > I personally find OO.o's behavior in this situation much more helpful
> > than magically wrapping the references.
>
> silently changing the content of what is being copied?
>
> I guess I could have thought of that: if OOo doesn't do X why would
> anyone want X?!

Got out of bed on the wrong side?

  Eike

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