https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165271
Bug ID: 165271
Summary: "Total rows" and "Total columns" options in pivot
table layout dialog are worded ambiguously
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In the pivot table layout dialog's "Options" expander, there are things
including:
* "Total columns"
* "Total rows"
Those are ambiguous and always confusing to me, especially in English where the
singular word "total" can be both a noun or a verb.
As it turns out,
* "Total rows" means "Show a row with columns' totals" (I don't think it
actually ever shows more than one such row per pivot table, does it?);
* "Total columns" means "Show a columns with each row's totals".
I would suggest naming them exactly like that, or if you want to keep the
checkbox labels short, like this:
* "Show totals row"
(notice the change in the plurals/singular, and the presence of a verb)
* "Show totals column"
...then putting in a hover tooltip the full-length wordings I mentioned
earlier.
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Observed on
Version: 25.2.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Calc: threaded
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