Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

[Mike Scott]

On 18/05/15 20:27, Andreas Säger wrote:

Am 18.05.2015 um 17:50 schrieb hw:






I don't understand why or how this is complicated.  When I make a
general/global setting amongst others, I simply expect this setting to
be in effect regardless which document I open.



All of Calc's general settings are stored globally.
All calculation settings are stored in the ODF spreadsheet. Excel does


It's not so much where they're stored, as the access route. This 
particular setting - case sensitivity - is stored in the document, but 
accessed in a dialogue that one might expect to be concerned with global 
settings.


There seems to be a similar issue with precision as shown on the same 
settings page. Not that I, personally, would ever, ever countenance that 
as an available option in the first place.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

[David Lynch]

On 12/05/2015 21:39, Andreas Säger wrote:

Am 12.05.2015 um 12:55 schrieb hw:


Am 12.05.2015 um 12:45 schrieb hw:

Hi,

I need, of course, formulars to be case sensitive.  This can be set in
the options for calc.  The option is not saved permanently and every
time I open a spreadsheet, I need to set the option again.

How can I save this option permanently so I don't need to set it over
and over again?


To clarify:  I need the string comparisons of IF() to be case sensitive:
  'if(a1 = x; ...) is, of course, different from 'if(a1 = X; ...)'.


Why would anyone make them not case sensitive unless explicitly
specified, and how do I specify case sensitiveness per formula?



All spreadsheets had been case insensitive ever since.
Use the EXACT function for case sensitive comparison.

The calculation options do not apply to Excel files which is why you
have to reset this option every time you load the file. The Excel file
format has no place where this setting can be stored.

All spreadsheets had been case insensitive ever since.  - I don't 
understand this.


The OpenFormula specification says that comparisons are case sensitive 
unless HOST-CASE-SENSITIVEisfalse.





 6.4.7Infix Operator =

Summary:Report if two values are equal

Syntax:ScalarLeft =ScalarRight

Returns:Logical

Constraints:None

Semantics:Returns TRUE if two values are equal. If the values differ in 
type, return FALSE. If the values are both Number, return TRUE if they 
are considered equal, else return FALSE. If they are both Text, return 
TRUE if the two values match, else return FALSE. For Text values, if the 
calculation settingHOST-CASE-SENSITIVEisfalse, text is compared but 
characters differencing only in case are considered equal. If they are 
both Logicals, return TRUE if they are identical, else return FALSE. 
Error valuescannotbe compared to a constant Error value to determine if 
that is the same Error value.





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