Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:30:29AM +0200, Thomas Mellman wrote:But I was surprised when I tried to load my cell-phone phone book into it, and the "text"-mode column stripped the leading "+" from the numbers. Yes, I can do that. Somebody pointed that out. My phone won't take that when I want to ship it back, however. I'll have to write something in perl to fix it up first. I've been shown why that is perfectly logical behavior, software architecture-wise. I think, however, that it's actually a user-interface bug. Ideally, something like adding a checkbox to re-interpret existing data could be added to the format-cells context-specific-dialog. Or, simpler, a configuration parameter (preference) could specify that default text columns are text, and not general. Other approaches may be even better. I think conceptionally something is not quite right here, in this tool that is perfect in so many other ways. I hope I have the time to get gnumeric built (tools based on the gnu libraries are terribly complicated to build, with their very fussy configure scripts), then perhaps I can put my money where my mouth is. --
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