Hi, As far as I know, using the single quote to force a spreadsheet to treat numbers as strings is a feature, not a bug. Perhaps it would be helpful to make such strings easier to find, but removing this feature will probably cause problems for people who rely on it.
Best regards, Christophe Strobbe > On 10 February 2021 at 20:42 earthballoon <earthball...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey there, > i just spent an hour trying to fix a broken calculation result and almost > went crazy. > The issue turned out to be a number with a --> ' <--- in front of it. That > is not visible, but only in the edit field of the cell. > In my case it led to a different result than in my accounting software, I > was summing up a bunch of cells. > > Before I had switched from English to German "Locale" settings, so that > numbers would be displayed with a comma instead of point. I don't know how > this sign got before the number, but in any case it led to wrong calculating > result. > > I consider this very dangerous, since I rely on the results for pretty > important stuff.... > And hope that the community picks this up in some way! ;) > thanks, peace > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.com/Accessibility-f2006038.html > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: accessibility+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: accessibility+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
