https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159603

--- Comment #3 from ady <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Typical use case for zoom is to accommodate to monitor distance. Meaning you
> don't want to adjust the zoom factor for each single sheet - the opposite of
> your request.
> 

I hope you don't mean that such case is the main (and/or only) reason to change
the zoom factor on a worksheet. A few different examples follow, FWIW.

One worksheet might contain detailed information on many items. Another
worksheet might have summary information. On each of those, you might need to
focus on a certain area of the whole worksheet, or you might need to see "the
bigger picture" for diverse reasons.

Since Calc lacks the possibility of Tracing Precedents/Dependents on a
different worksheet, there is a chance that both, the "details" and the
"summary" might be located in the same worksheet, and so sometimes users need
to focus on one area, whereas sometimes the need is to see the relations
between different parts of a worksheet that might contain dozens or hundreds of
columns.

While building a worksheet (e.g. formulas), you might have to zoom in/out in
order to click/select some range. That range might be near the cell that
contains the formula, or it might be much further away. While this happens,
other worksheets on the same workbook were already built in the past and they
require a different zoom factor, that rather should not be changed each time.

One worksheet might contain a lot of ("detail") data, a second worksheet might
contain a "summary" of the data, and a third worksheet might contain graphs
related either to the summary or to the detail data. Each of these might
deserve a different use of zoom factors.

These are just a few examples of possible reasons to have different zoom
factors on different worksheets, all being part of the same workbook.

Having said that, there is also the possibility that a user wants to change the
zoom factor to all the worksheets (at once), instead of having to change it
independently for each worksheet.

My point is that there are diverse workflows and needs. Sometimes the zoom
factor should rather be modified for all the worksheets in a workbook at once,
whereas sometimes each worksheet should rather have its own zoom factor
independent of the others.

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