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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 25 12:39:44 +0000 
2007 -------
Why shouldn't open office be able to show "bad" spreadsheets properly - even on 
small screens? If you print out a "bad" spreadsheet og view it in Print preview 
it looks fine - but in the actual open office calc editor you simply can't see 
the cell content, scroll through it or even Edit it while seeing it.

Remember that "bad" spreadsheets my be scientific research with descriptions 
and measurement results - spreadsheets might be perfect for that. And - as I 
know from my work - spreadsheets are perfect for technical manuscripts and 
localizations with lots of text in different languages (one per columes) and 
huge cell heights. The whole translation business uses spreadsheets and excel 
sucks with large cell heights. Why now acknowledge that?

Why don't you think it's a problem that open office simply can't let the user 
see and edit the whole cell if its height is large or the user only has a small 
screen or a small window for open office?

All browsers try to show badly designed websites as good as possible letting 
the user scroll all over them to help the user see the entire page.
Programs are there to help the user - not force the user to act in a certain 
way. Software is meant to be adjusted to best do what the user wants - it 
shouldn't be the user that is limited to use the software _only_ the way the 
programmers could think.

Please see the attached scripts for repro. I think you might want to call this 
a DEFECT after seeing the problems this behavoir causes. Certainly not OK.

Perhaps you never made a user tests and examined the users' reactions on this 
exact functionality.

Cheers
-- David

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