Hello, I am digging up this bug, please let me know if it's better to open a new one.
In reply to Chris Cheney, 2008-04-12: it seems to me that current versions of OpenOffice do _not_ show error 529 (or "#VALUE") but treat strings as zeroes instead. In particular: - OpenOffice 3.0.1 for Windows, downloaded in binary form from openoffice.org web site; - OpenOffice 3.0.1 compiled from FreeBSD ports collection; - the version that Nicole (2008-09-28) said to have downloaded all show the "old" behavior. Since OO 3.0.1 is the latest version, I think that this contradicts what Chris was told at GoOOCon: official versions of OpenOffice still do treat strings as zeroes. It seems to me that only the Ubuntu builds show an explicit error in this case. I've checked: - OpenOffice 2.4.1 included in Hardy; - latest version of OpenOffice for Hardy downloaded from ppa.launchpad.net (openoffice-pkgs). I therefore suggest to let the Ubuntu build behave the same as the official one. I think that not doing so would break, for some users, one of the best features of OpenOffice: being a platform-invariant program. -- [Upstream] [hardy] calc: sum show err:529 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210153 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
