http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/improving_calc_usability_autosum
Friday, 06 Jul 2007 Improving Calc Usability: AutoSum Thomas Benisch The Calc Ease of Use iTeam is currently attacking the most annoying usability issues in Calc. Our first issue was Calc's AutoSum feature. AutoSum is used for summing up cell values automatically. If the user sets the cursor to the next empty cell of a row or column, which contains a series of values, and presses the Sum button in the formula bar, Calc automatically sums up the values and inserts the result as a sum formula at the cursor position. A lot of users complained about Calc that it's not possible that the cells which should be summed up can be specified by the user, e.g. by marking the cell range with the mouse. This problem has been addressed in CWS calcautosum, which has been integrated into SRC680 m217 and will be available in OpenOffice.org 2.3. You can also download the recent developer snapshot build and give it a try. For a first impression of this feature, please see the screenshot below. More information can be found here. Summing up several rows and columns of a marked cell range (top). After pressing the 'Sum' button (bottom) the sum formulas are inserted. Watch out, there's more to come. Posted by Thomas Benisch on 06 Jul 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [メールアドレス保護] For additional commands, e-mail: [メールアドレス保護]
