On 12/19/2008 01:17 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2008/12/19 NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> > >> On 12/19/2008 12:39 PM, NoOp wrote: >> >> > >> > One thing that I find is, if I enter: >> > >> > =SUM($A$1:A1) >> > >> > in the B1 cell it works just fine (I just copied & pasted from your >> > post). However, if I enter the same in the input bar, the data in the >> > cell becomes text: =SUM($A$1:A1). But if I first click the = icon >> > (function icon) on the input bar and then past: SUM($A$1:A1) if works >> > properly. Can you no longer just enter '=' followed by a function in the >> > input bar? >> >> Disregard this last... I must have copied an extra space before >> =SUM($A$1:A1). > > One thing that I always disliked about OpenOffice.org, somewhat related to > this, is the following: > Sometimes I forgot the "=" character when entering formulas. If I did that > in Excel, I could just click the "=" icon, and an "=" was added right before > my formula. For example, if A1 contains 2+2 and I then hit the "=" icon, A1 > would contain =2+2. That doesn't happen with OpenOffice.org, unfortunately. > J.R.
Hmmm... I just checked in MS Excel 2002 SP3 and it behaves the same as OOo with the exception of also providing a dropdown box for various formulae. However, MS Excel 97 does do what you wish... so I reckon that you'd have to go back quite aways to get that function back :-) Those are the only two versions of Excel that I have, so others might have different results. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
