Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Peter Kupfer wrote:
In OOo Calc a whole file is a called a spreadsheet and one individual
tab in the spreadsheet is called a sheet. I find this to be a little
confusing at time when writing.
I would like OOo to change the nomenclature to be more in line with
industry standard. I would like the term spreadsheet to be Workbook
and the term sheet to be spreadsheet.
Rick Barnes wrote:
Workbook and Worksheet are ... "standard"
electronic spreadsheet terms. If we opt to use Workbook and Sheet we
will continue to use non-standard terms.
The question is, "Do we want to use standard spreadsheet terminology?"
My vote is for Workbook and Worksheet...
+1
I had previously said I thought that "workbook" and "spreadsheet" are
better terms than "spreadsheet" and "sheet". If the most common
terminology is, as Rick says, "Workbook" and "worksheet", then I'd go
for that. I'll admit that using "spreadsheet", "sheet" and "worksheet"
for the same item doesn't bother me at all -- as long as the other item
is called a workbook or anything else that doesn't include "sheet". I
don't know if my reaction is typical of users, but to me anything with
"sheet" in its name is what I think of as a "page", while work*book* to
me is a collection of sheets or pages, as is any other book.
Whichever terms we choose to use, we should put a note in each chapter
file of the Calc guide about the terminology, equating OOo's terms with
industry standard ones. We've done something similar in situations where
terms are used inconsistently in OOo, or where OOo uses two terms for
one item, or one term for two items, or any other potentially confusing
terminology situation.
Regards, Jean
I filed an issue to get it changed. I would think that for the most part
we should stick with the Calc terminology, but if we have diverted
before, I am okay with that.
We just need to decide before we make our last run though the Calc chapters.
--
Peter Kupfer
OOo user since 'OO4
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