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What |Old value |New value
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OS/Version|Windows XP |All
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Platform|Unknown |All
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Summary|function text does not wor|TEXT should accept textual
|k correctly | argument
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Subcomponent|editing |programming
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Target milestone|--- |OOo 3.3
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------- Additional comments from e...@openoffice.org Tue Jan 19 12:12:56 +0000
2010 -------
This not working anymore is a side effect of the new "calculate with strings"
behavior, see http://sc.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=307
A localized date text is not automatically converted to number anymore.
To get the desired behavior in this case use VALUE() to convert the text to
number, e.g.
=TEXT(VALUE(MID(A1;FIND(":";A1)+1;8));"GGGG")
Note that this is still locale dependent, with the date argument to VALUE()
being a DD/MM/YYYY string and the Italian number format argument GGGG.
A safer way would be to generate an ISO 8601 string in the form YYYY-MM-DD, e.g.
"2009-12-29", and pass that to VALUE(), maybe let a number format GGGG display
the year instead of using TEXT().
However, a textual argument passed to TEXT() should not result in an error, but
the text be returned instead, unless the number format is a text format, the
same as if a text was displayed using any number format except Text. The
localized date would not be interpreted in any case.
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