https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160096

--- Comment #7 from ady <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> Confirming that Excel does this, if the error message is off "wrong" values
> are silently accepted. It's a bug IMO and at max we max add a compatibility
> option. Excel has means to highlight ("circle") the wrong data, ie.
> validation is supposed to be applied after input.
> 
> I wonder if you are looking for the selection list (alt+down)
> https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/06130000.html

@Heiko,

Selection list is not the same thing as the behavior described in comment 0.

Since users have been using Calc with this behavior for 3+ decades and Excel
does the same, please consider the simpler solution (which happens to result in
better compatibility too): reverting the patch from tdf#159595, which was
implemented very recently only.

As for the difference between being consider a bug or not, it would be resolved
by adding the (prior, old) "real" behavior to the official Help content and
guides, closing any possible assumption regarding how it is supposed to
work/behave. Just add a patch for the Help content immediately after the
proposed reverse.

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