Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-08 Thread Stephan Zietsman
plino wrote: I thought something was wrong because when I replaced all the text cells with values I got a 0 (zero). I incorrectly assumed it would show All Good but that was not possible since the final function was MIN :) Yeah, sorry about that. After I posted the formula, I realised that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-08 Thread Stephan Zietsman
Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Was interested if it could be modified for multi-column searches. Did a same test using H2:I5 and used this formula. = SMALL((IF(ISNUMBER($H$2:$I$5), ALL GOOD,COLUMN($H$2:$I$5)*1000+ROW($H$2:$I$5))), 1) That returns the number 8004 and 2nd one returns 9005. Then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-08 Thread Stephan Zietsman
plino wrote: I hope this will also contribute for the array bug to be fixed since I reported it on the bug tracker... Just for reference (if anyone is curious), the bug is: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38014 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-08 Thread plino
Hi Stephan I will test this one later. With don't you simply name the range Jack? It's much easier to use and modify ;) I think that there is no need to know the second, third, etc text celss. You only need to know the first error to go there and fix it. One error at a time :) Thanks! -- View

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 8 Jun 2011 at 10:37, Stephan Zietsman wrote: Date sent: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:37:07 +0200 Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4? From: Stephan Zietsman szi...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4? Priority: normal Send reply to: users@libreoffice.org On 8 Jun 2011 at 10:37, Stephan Zietsman wrote: Date sent:Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-07 Thread Jack
plino wrote: I couldn't make it work. In fact I just found out that array functions don't work in Lib (3.3 or 3.4) nor in OOo (3.4 beta) Hey plino, array formulas in LibO/OOo are a little tricky (little more so than in Excel). If you've entered the formula correctly and pressed ENTER

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-07 Thread plino
Jack wrote: array formulas in LibO/OOo are a little tricky (little more so than in Excel). If you've entered the formula correctly and pressed ENTER (instead of CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER), then obviously it does not work. If you then select the cell/formula again and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER, then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-07 Thread Stephan Zietsman
plino wrote: Even with the array working it's not detecting non-numeric cells properly. Can you upload your spreadsheet somewhere so I can see what I'm doing wrong? Hi plino, sure, the upload link is: http://www.2shared.com/file/WuzUYsyS/FindNonNumeric.html See the formula in cell C2. Let me

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-07 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 7 Jun 2011 at 11:47, Stephan Zietsman wrote: Date sent: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:47:25 +0200 Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4? From: Stephan Zietsman szi...@gmail.com

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-06 Thread Jack
plino wrote: But as you said, I really don't want to browse 300.000 lines to spot errors ;) Hi plino, for your specific case I might have a possible workaround. The following formula (place it in any cell) would give you the row number for the first non-numeric value in the range A1:A3.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-06 Thread plino
Hi Jack I couldn't make it work. In fact I just found out that array functions don't work in Lib (3.3 or 3.4) nor in OOo (3.4 beta) I don't know if it ever worked (I use it every now and then, so I couldn't say if I used it before in OOo/LO) but if it did, someone broke it :) Another bug to fix

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-06 Thread nvrk
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM, plino pedl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jack I couldn't make it work. In fact I just found out that array functions don't work in Lib (3.3 or 3.4) nor in OOo (3.4 beta) I don't know if it ever worked (I use it every now and then, so I couldn't say if I used it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-05 Thread PLO
Hello Tom, On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:22:50 +0100 (BST) (your time) you said: ... i played around with Format Cells. I couldn't get an ideal answer that shows a - even when the cell is empty but i could get one when the cell has 0 value. Well, too much time later and I haven't been able to work

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Davies
:01 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4? Hello Tom, On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:22:50 +0100 (BST) (your time) you said: ... i played around with Format Cells. I couldn't get an ideal answer that shows a - even when

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-05 Thread prholland
I have a solution to the specific problem, based on Michael D. Setzer II's suggestion (see below): =IF(AND(ISNUMBER(C227), ISNUMBER(B227)),IF(C227-B2270,C227-B227,0), 0)

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread plino
It must be a new feature :) I advise you to test 3.3 RC1 and update to 3.3 when it is released. Version 3.4 is not ready for real work as stated in the release announcement http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-Document-Foundation-announces-LibreOffice-3-4-0-tt3019206.html -- View this

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread plino
Actually I had never noticed that spreadsheets (all including Excel) ignore text values mixed with numbers. This worries me a lot! I work with 300.000+ line spreadsheets and if one line has a text value (because of a typo) I wouldn't notice that. Is there any setting that triggers a warning

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread prholland
The following screenshot is taken from a spreadsheet that previously showed 00:00 in LibreOffice 3.3.2, where LibreOffice 3.4.0 is now showing #VALUE! (NB: all the cells are formatted as Time values, and the text cells contain -):

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Tom Davies
, 2011 14:26:56 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4? The following screenshot is taken from a spreadsheet that previously showed 00:00 in LibreOffice 3.3.2, where LibreOffice 3.4.0 is now showing #VALUE! (NB: all the cells

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread PLO
Hello prholland, On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (your time) you said: The following screenshot is taken from a spreadsheet that previously showed 00:00 in LibreOffice 3.3.2, where LibreOffice 3.4.0 is now showing #VALUE! (NB: all the cells are formatted as Time values, and the text

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Tom Davies
:) - Original Message From: PLO protect.libreoff...@inboxshield.co.uk To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 4 June, 2011 14:58:49 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4? Hello prholland, On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:26:56 -0700 (PDT

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 4 Jun 2011 at 6:06, plino wrote: Date sent: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:06:55 -0700 (PDT) From: plino pedl...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Subject:[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi prholland, prholland schrieb: The following screenshot is taken from a spreadsheet that previously showed 00:00 in LibreOffice 3.3.2, where LibreOffice 3.4.0 is now showing #VALUE! (NB: all the cells are formatted as Time values, and the text cells contain -):

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread plino
Michael D. Setzer II wrote: If you use count on a range it only counts numeric cells, but counta counts numeric and non-empty cells, so if they don't give the same results for the same range, there is an error? Yes, that would work but it forces me to do this verification for each

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread plino
Brian Barker wrote: One useful facility in this case is Value Highlighting. Go to View | Value Highlighting or press Ctrl+F8. The font colour for text (temporarily) becomes black, for numbers and other values blue, and for formulae green. (Formulae should be no problem, since it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/6/4 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de: Hi prholland, prholland schrieb: The following screenshot is taken from a spreadsheet that previously showed 00:00 in LibreOffice 3.3.2, where LibreOffice 3.4.0 is now showing #VALUE! (NB: all the cells are formatted as Time values, and the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Johnny, Johnny Rosenberg schrieb: 2011/6/4 Regina Henschelrb.hensc...@t-online.de: [..] In OOo this can be done by the function N. Unfortunately the spec makes it implemention defined what N does with text. In OOo N returns 0 for text, which I think is useful. In LO it returns #VALUE

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/6/4 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de: Hi Johnny, Johnny Rosenberg schrieb: 2011/6/4 Regina Henschelrb.hensc...@t-online.de: [..] In OOo this can be done by the function N. Unfortunately the spec makes it implemention defined what N does with text. In OOo N returns 0 for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4?

2011-06-04 Thread Tom Davies
- Original Message From: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 4 June, 2011 20:27:51 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: Has anyone tested the backward-compatibility of LibreOffice 3.4? 2011/6/4 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t