Den 2011-03-09 19:29:38 skrev Andy Graybeal <andy.grayb...@casanueva.com>:

Hello,
My organization is trying to move from MS Office to OpenOffice (or it might be read, I'm trying to convince everyone to move from MS Office to OpenOffice in an effort to move our business to use only open source software).

We're using OpenOffice 3.2.0 on Ubuntu 10.04.

One of my co-workers regularly uses Excel's (2003, if I remember correctly) Autofilter feature, and she has a different experience with OpenOffice's Autofilter.

Here are the steps taken in Excel:
        * Select a row
        * We go to: Data -> Filter -> Auto Filter
        * Dropdown boxes appear for every column
* We select an item from the dropdown box; this lists only the items that have been filtered, and it gives her the chance to make a subtotal in one of the empty row below the filter results.
        
Here are the steps taken in OpenOffice:
        * Select a row
* We go to: Data -> Filter -> Auto Filter, it informs and asks us that "The range does not contain column headers. Do you want the first line to be a column header?" We select "Yes" from the dialog box.
        * Dropdown boxes appear for every column
* We make a selection from a dropdown box; this lists the filtered items and other information. She doesn't get the chance to make a subtotal in an empty row below the filter results.

Can you help us approach the situation? Should we be doing things differently? What is a column header and would assigning this help us?

Thanks,
Andy
        

”…it gives her the chance to make a subtotal…”
Since I don't have Excel I would probably need to know exactly HOW this happens, to be able to answer the question. Is she asked in a dialogue box or what?

Anyway, subtotals are usually calculated with the SUBTOTAL() function, so she can always put it in a cell manually.

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Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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