https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99732

Spencer Graves <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|NOTABUG                     |---
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #3 from Spencer Graves <[email protected]> ---
Thanks for the review.  My real problem is that when I paste a number like
$1,234.56 into a cell, sometimes it is converted to numeric and sometimes it
stays as character, which looks like a number and computes as a number with "+"
but not "sum".  

Worse, I could not find an easy way to convert the text into a number. 
Sometimes the number starts with a single quote, like ('1234).  If I see that,
I can remove the single quote.  Otherwise, I can't just type the number over,
because the cell is now committed to text.  I tried typing the number in
manually without "$" and "," and found that the cell was committed to text and
converted the number to text.  I have to insert a new cell, carefully enter the
number manually, then manually delete the cell committed to text.  

You are correct, that it's not a problem with "sum" -- nor with "+":  If either
were changed, it would break lots of spreadsheets people have used for years.  

Thanks, Spencer Graves

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