[ PROPOSAL ] A new REVERSE string function for Spreadsheets

I hope my suggestion reaches its intended target, and meets your community's standards for submission of additional functions. I would like to see a REVERSE function, which returns a new string with characters in reverse order to the target string. I am attempting to remove duplicates after

Re: [ PROPOSAL ] A new REVERSE string function for Spreadsheets

Oh, that's easy. The facility already exists -- No need to "add" a feature. I often have lists of names that need sorting is various ways. TABLES are the answer. It may be cumbersome to make a table from a list, but it really pays off for applications like yours. Table elements are usually

RE: [ PROPOSAL ] A new REVERSE string function for Spreadsheets

w the name is spoken. Have to deal with that too sometimes. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Julian Thomas [mailto:j...@jt-mj.net] > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 16:22 > To: Open Office Apache list <users@openoffice.apache.org> > Subject: Re: [ PROPOSAL

Re: [ PROPOSAL ] A new REVERSE string function for Spreadsheets

> On Jan 15, 2016, at 11:49, Ross Murray wrote: > > I would like to see a REVERSE function, which returns a new string with > characters in reverse order to the target string. > > I am attempting to remove duplicates after merging many files to create a > very large