Dear Calc team,
I stumbled recently open an issue with automatic URL recognition [see
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=106464]. [I had some
frustrations with URLs in the past, too.]
I wonder however, how useful this feature is. It is my believe that most
people opening a spreadsheet will never have heard of "db:" or "slot:",
and therefore this "feature" will be a very bad experience.
I just tried out various combinations, and obviously a lot of these do
not really look like an "URL", though all of them get converted to a URL:
xxxx db:12
xxxx:db:12
xxxx;db:12
xxxx_db:12
xxxx*db:12
xxxx`db:12
xxxx+db:12
By comparison, the next 2 are not converted (though the first one gets
capitalized).
Xxxx-db:12
xxxx\db:12
I believe that this is overzealous auto-formatting and should be
avoided, especially if the URL does not make sense as an URL. An UNDO
functionality would be really welcomed, too (the UNDO is not limited to
this one issue).
'DB' might well reference a column, so we might have ranges of the form
db:dc (though this seems not to work in Calc, it works well in other
applications). Therefore, 'DB:' may well be referenced in various
labels/strings, as well.
Sincerely,
Leonard Mada
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