On 11/15/13 4:11 PM, Paul wrote:
the behaviour is correct, and consistant with other
spreadsheet programs.
Sorry, no. The behavior may be correct, but it is not completely
consistent with other spreadsheet programs. At least it is not
completely consistent with how Excel implements this. In particular, I
still am unable to simply paste special a cell containing the number 1
onto a cell (or range of cells) containing a text representation of a
number and, using the multiply choice, have that cell's contents
converted to a number from text. This is what is done widely among Excel
users.
Granted the procedure is not intuitive, but it is widely known and used.
You may argue that it is behavior that a spreadsheet should not allow
and I could be persuaded to agree, however, Libreoffice's behavior here
is not consistent with other spreadsheet programs in regard to this
feature.
In my opinion, Libreoffice does not have to do everything the way Excel
does it, but when it differs, we should be clear that it differs.
Lastly, this thread has been very valuable to me in that I now have
several alternate methods of handling columns of numbers which are
wrongly formatted as text. I deeply appreciate this resource.
Charles
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