https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100038
Bug ID: 100038
Summary: special at sign(@) treatment is frustrating for new
users and impossible to google
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.1.3.2 rc
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Hello,
I've been using LibreOffice for about an hour now. I'm just trying to enter
some data in Calc. I was able to Google some useful keyboard shortcuts and
things are pretty cool. I figured out how to move rows around and stuff.
However, when I enter "@" in a field, like "40V, 200mA, h=100@1V,10mA" then
Calc goes nutty. It won't let me edit the word containing the "@", I see a gray
rectangle containing the text "h=100@1V,10mA". I click on it and it selects the
whole thing, I use the arrows and it skips over the rectangle. Sometimes after
clicking around on other cells or something, then I can get Calc to let me edit
the text in question, but then it seems kind of buggy - it forgets my edits, or
when I edit the text after the rectangle, it comes out garbled.
Maybe I've entered something atypical but it's weird that I would start using a
piece of software and get stuck so quickly.
No help from Google "libreoffice calc at sign".
No help from F1 (searched for @ and "at").
No help from "Help > What's this?" and clicking on gray rectangle.
I just want your software to stop trying to be so smart!
I finally got help from user "Marqeaux" on IRC, but ... Can you think of some
ways to remove this stumbling block for future new users?
Thank you,
Frederick Eaton
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