https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122812

Rob Weir <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|CONFIRMED                   |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG

--- Comment #4 from Rob Weir <[email protected]> ---
I'm not sure this is actually a bug.   The leading ' is not a character is not
part of the string all.  It is just a formatting hint, to treat what the user
types as a string not a number.  This is true with other spreadsheets as well,
going back to 1-2-3.

One way of seeing that it is not part of the string is to use any of the
string-oriented functions, such as LEN() or FIND() on such a cell.  These
functions to not see the apostrophe either.

I would be bad, I think, if the interactive string searching (Edit/Find) had a
different way of searching for strings than what the spreadsheet functions did.
 This would be very confusing.

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