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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Mar 3 13:04:16 +0000 2009 ------- >ondrej_suchy says: >Arithmetic operations of number and text should yeild either number (like Excel >does) We have seen above that Excel does not always give either a number or an error, it depends on the formulas used. >or an error, if you want to be puritan. Not 0, which could confuse people and lead to false assumptions, as it actually does now in real-life scenarios. The option is to treat text as 0, not to give 0 as the result of a formula containing text cells. I would be interested to see a scenario where the inclusion of text in a series of calculation, gives an answer that leads to false assumptions, if the text is treated as 0 in the formula. The only time that this will occur is where a number has been specifically entered as text, which, I admit, is something which needs to be handled e.g. by flagging the cell as suggested above. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
