On 7 Jun 2008 at 11:25, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:57:03 +0100
> "mike scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Not so, in fact following that discussion all my columns are now 300 
> > entries long, which should see me through.  But one day, someone 
> > /will/ accidentally go over such a preset length, not notice, and pay 
> > the price with erroneous results.
> > 
> > (And the help file does need clarifying IMO)
> 
> I personally prefer something relatively clean. While it is good to
> know that empty cells are not included, considering that someone else
> may have to use the worksheet is a very good consideration. In my case,
....

And it's not so obvious that the simple exclusion of empty cells is a 
good thing. Missing cells in a large table (eg entry typo) may not be 
spotted for example: maybe there should be a flag to say embedded (or 
any?) empty cells are an error, as indeed might be cells containing 
unexpected characters.

And I've just spotted that a space character (which of course /looks/ 
like an empty cell) seems to behave like a numeric zero.  Ouch!!!

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