Re: [office] Data Grid Size element proposal

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:41 +0100, Eike Rathke wrote:
> 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.

My copy of OOo 3.0 does _not_ display #REF! just as a result but in fact
it changes the formula entered to "=REF!". (If it just showed the result
of #REF! I could go in and modify the reference. This way I cannot.)

Note that OpenFormula draft requires that if the reference is beyond the
capabilities of the application the reference should evaluate to REF! I
ma wondering what OOo would do would it encounter this in a file and the
file is being saved without user modification. Would it change the
formula?

Since the OpenFormula draft refers to capabilities (and not gridsize) I
consider Gnumeric compliant with the draft in this respect (using a
toroidal grid) while OOo  is not.

Andreas

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Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta

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