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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 15 04:34:55 -0800 
2006 -------
>>[Issue 63203]
>>IMHO not a bug from Calc but from Excel, they calculate with text values
>>as the MID function result is always a text, you get the difference.
>>
>>Normally I should close this as invalid, but the expectations on the user
>>site have to be considered, so double to Issue 5658.

I strongly support consideration of "fixing" this.

- We can say its the fault of Excel, but I have a rack of beer on that it
  will not change neither in the old Excel versions nor in any new version
  [retain backward compatibility]
- It is clearly a compatibility issue. Anyone migrating will see this is a bad
  implementation/handling of OOo, not as Excel's fault, probably not happy to
  check and fix dozens of spreadsheets, don't even know what to change
  (besides insert a value(cell) into every cell referenced fuctions)
- If OOo treats these as texts, then the following should be treated as text:
  ="3"+1 should result 1(*), not 4 as it is now.
- (*)more properly is should result Error:502 as it is for ="abc"+1

To sum it up, fixing it would cause "customer satisfaction" besides stopping 
this "bug" to be reported over and over...

Thanks

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