Am 29.10.2014 um 03:36 schrieb F C. Costero: > Forwarding in case Darren isn't subscribed. And I see now that my reference > below to 30 years should have been somewhat less, but still many years. > That's what I get for reading only the title of a message. > Francis >
Hi, It's 35 years since the first release of Visicalc which followed the same calculation rules as todays spreadsheet application. > http://www.danbricklin.com/history/refcard1.htm Text values are documented as "Labels" and were not subject to arithmetic operations. You could enter numeric labels with a preceeding double-quote. Today this is a single quote. According to > http://www.excelfunctions.net/Excel-Sum-Function.html text representations of numbers within ranges are ignored by Excel's SUM function. As Rob already pointed out, Excel does some fatal mistakes when it comes to implicit string to number conversions in other contexts. The same Excel document loaded into the same version of MS Excel may yields different results on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean because different language versions of Excel convert the same text values differently. If you enter/paste/import numeric text values into your Calc document, Calc behaves correctly and consistently. You may convert these values if they are wrong (no, formatting doesn't change any values) and you can explicitly convert these values by means of the VALUE function. But you can not SUM up any text. Cheers to all the pesky trolls kidding the dev mailing list with childish rants about non-issues, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
