https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153206

--- Comment #9 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Hendrik Maryns from comment #8)
> In my case, it is not a user error, they are all article numbers in
> a hardware store

And this is *exactly* the user error. A *number* (in Calc sense) is anything
that you use to *perform calculations*. Identifiers of any kind (like "article
numbers") are *not* numbers, and should be stored as *text* (either by
prepending number-like entries with ', or by pre-formatting the column as text
*prior to entry*).

Without that, one can realize at some point that "numbers" that they enter
would transform to somethin unexpected: e.g., one enters "000123", and gets
"123"; or one enters "123/4", and gets "30 3/4"...

And the sort "misbehaving" is just another manifestation of *the* user error.

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