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Subject: Re: [office-formula] COUNTIFS function proposal
- From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
- To: Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:31:46 -0400
Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com> wrote on 06/04/2008
11:14:03 AM:
> Hi,
>
> Excel 2007 and ECMA/MOOXML introduced several new functions, of which
we
> defined some, e.g. IFERROR, but seem to have missed the COUNTIFS
> function that counts logically ANDed conditional results, similar
to
> what can be accomplished using SUM with conditions in array context,
> e.g. {=SUM((A1:B2>3)*(B4:B5>6))}. People seem to start using
COUNTIFS
> and miss it in OOo when importing documents created in Excel.
>
I agree that we should be including all of the functions
from MSO 2007.
> Note that the syntax and description given in the ECMA/MOOXML draft
> appear to be wrong, the examples seem to be correct though ...
>
> Syntax given:
> COUNTIFS ( count-range , cell-range-1 , selection-criteria-1 [ ,
> cell-range-2 , selection-criteria-2 [ , … ] ] )
>
> instead should be
> COUNTIFS ( cell-range-1 , selection-criteria-1 [ , cell-range-2 ,
> selection-criteria-2 [ , … ] ] )
>
> at least that seems to be what Excel 2007 expects, and count-range
IMHO
> also wouldn't make sense, would have to investigate.
>
> Thoughts, opinions, comments, objections?
>
I don't see what count-range does at all. OOXML
has it as a required first parameter, but it doesn't appear to use it at
all. As you mention, the examples leave it out as well, which makes
the examples contradict the text.
> Btw, is there a more recent public version of the
> ECMA/MOOXML/ISO/whatever draft/final spec available somewhere than
what
> I downloaded 2007-01-18 from the ECMA site and still appears to be
the
> same at
> http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/Office%
> 20Open%20XML%20Part%204%20-%20Markup%20Language%20Reference.pdf
> ?
>
There is no public version since the version you have.
But I have the post-BRM final DIS version and can confirm that the
error you indicated still exists.
-Rob
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