https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=86314

Czesław Wolański <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Czesław Wolański <[email protected]> ---
>From a note in ODF spec:

"OpenOffice.org 2 splits the difference: Inline Text is converted
 to a Number (like Excel), but references to Text are always considered 0
 (even if they could be converted to a different number, and would be
 converted to a different number if in-line). Thus, in OOo 2, if B3 has
 the string value "7", B3+1 is 1, but "7"+1 and (B3&"")+1 are both 8."

OOo 3.2.0 introduced a new approach:

"While interpreting a formula expression, string content is now
 converted to numeric values if conversion is unambiguous, or
 a #VALUE! error is set
 if no unambiguous conversion is possible.(...)"

See:
- the 3.2.0 Release Notes
  http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.2.0.html 
- Issue 5658 ("Spreadsheet thinks a number is a string (text)"
- Calc Help topic "Converting Text to Numbers"

The attached .png file demonstrates the difference.


Issue fixed, can be closed.

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