Hi Bastien,

I'd like to give my opinion on this subject.

> The original display of the clock table with the default values
> for both options is consistent.  Putting the "File time" in a
> different column would require putting the "Total time" in yet
> another column, which IMO makes the clock table to large.

First of all, I agree with you on the fact that the current way of presenting the table is clear enough, at least if you keep bold formatting for file times.

If I understand well, Sebastien's problem is due to the fact that he has to remove the bold formatting in order to be able to make references to this table's cells (in order to use its content value in a formula).

Removing bold formatting makes things unclear as you end up with 3 levels on the same column (grand total, file totals and first level heading totals). In this case, I agree with Sebastien and I would prefer to split the first column into 2, keeping the grand total and file totals on the first column.

So, in my opinion, I see 2 solutions (which are not exclusive):

1) Be able to use a cell's content value in a formula even if a special formatting is used in that cell; if there's already a way to achieve this today, please tell us...

2) Follow Sebastien's idea in order for one to choose how to display the first 3 levels (grand total, file times and first level heading totals): in either 1 or 2 or 3 columns. The default being 1 column, corresponding to the current behavior.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
 Francesco

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