Hi Martina,
Martina Waller schrieb:
Hi all,
as you may know we have various inconsistencies in the Calc functions
help (see also issue 54559). In order to eliminate these I am proposing
a new help style guide for the Calc functions on
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Help_Style_Guide.
If you have any ideas for improvement, please let me know.
Arguments are separated by semicolon not by colon. Please look where to
change it in addition to the place I have changed. I don't know why you
mention "colon" in the other places.
Additional comments:
(1) If you give examples do not silently assume, that the local is
en-US, but give additional versions/informations.
=DATE(00;1;1) yields 1/1/00, if the cell format setting is "MM/DD/YY"
(2) Give examples that are unambiguous.
=DATE(2000;1;31)
(3) Never use quotes if they are not used literal. You confuse the user
whether to use a string or a number. For example =DATE("00;1;1") has
wrong syntax.
(4) Tell the user whether an argument type is silently converted or not.
(5) Tell the user which general settings influence the function result.
Here the general setting how two-character years are expanded to four
characters.
(6) Tell the user, for which incorrect arguments no error is generated.
Here for example, if the year is a string.
(7) Tell the user, if named ranges, named formulas, labels or named data
ranges are not resolved to their content or are forbidden.
(8) Tell the user, if a function works different from the corresponding
one in Excel.
(9) Tell the user the mathematical formula, which is used to calculate
the result, like Microsoft does it, see for example
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP052092101033.aspx
(10) Tell the user if internal underflow or overflow is not
automatically detected. Tell about the accuracy if possible.
kind regards
Regina
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