https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53828

Max Addler <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #2 from Max Addler <[email protected]> 2012-08-23 07:02:51 UTC 
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Thank you for having seriously considered this one. Having been a programmer, I
know situations where two completely different concepts are being presented to
the user as being the same thing - this is what I read from your comment. This
makes it difficult to access effects from one concept from within another
concept.

However, I was suggesting this as a business user. It is a common situation
that by changing one value inside a large spreadsheet, one or several others in
distant parts of the same spreadsheet or even in other tables do change.
Conditional formatting is very helpful to visually indicate such an indirect
change, especially when the affected value runs out of valid bounds for a given
business case. Frequently tables do not fit onto the screen as s whole, so in
absence of a search function one needs to manually scroll through all the
tables to look for such an indication of "out-of-bounds" values. This is
tedious and error-prone - cells get overlooked and "out-of-bounds" values
remain inside the sheet, which leads to errors in applying the results of the
sheet in business, and which therefore reduces the usability of LibreOffice in
such situations. Being able to search for those "out-of-bounds" values by
looking for the resulting format automatically is like an assertion inside
generated program code - it is a valid and valuable quality measure.

Of course I am aware that when I am asking you to reconsider, I do build on the
goodwill of a proboably voluntary contributors (you and others), and I do
appreciate your work very much. So my intention with this comment is to give
further explations while I filed this bug. Although I would not be happy to
hear that my buisness case is unintended use of LibreOffice or that LibreOffice
is structurally incapable of hosting such a change, in those cases I would
gladly accept a "WONTFIX". Otherwise I would be very happy with a "LATER" or
"REMIND" state and a consideration in discussions for later versions of
LibreOffice.

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