[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-1508) Named relative cellranges

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Andreas Guelzow  commented on OFFICE-1508:
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No. THere is clearly a misunderstanding, but the specs does _not_ allow relative interpretation of named ranges: Yes I can specify the named range using an absolute base address and a relatiuve reference to that base address, but this makes the whole named range still absolute.

I want to (need to) be able to dfine a named range that is relative to the cell the name is being used in.  So that =SUM(stufftotheleft) always calculates the sum of the cells that are to the left of the current cell by having stufftotheleft be effectively R[+0]C[1]:R[+0]C[-1].

> Named relative cell ranges
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>
>                 Key: OFFICE-1508
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-1508
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Table
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.2
>            Reporter: Andreas Guelzow 
>            Assignee: Andreas Guelzow 
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: ODF 1.2
>
>
> 17.638 currently contains the paragraph:
>  If the expression contains a relative cell range address, a table:base-cell-address attribute must also appear on the <table:named-expression> element.
> The spreadsheet program Gnumeric allows for named ranges that are interpreted relative. This is useful for situations were one wants to write many similar formulas that for example refer to a certain number of cells to the top right.

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