2009/7/14 Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> > > There are options in the Paste Special menu that > > add/subtract/multiply/divide the copied value to/from/by/by the target > cell > > before overwriting that cell. So, if you Copy 100 and Paste Special with > > Subtract turned on into a cell containing 1234567 you'll end up with > > 1234467. Paste Special seems to remember the last such option used. Hmmm > > ???? > > > > That was certainly not the issue here, I only discovered the Paste > Special feature recently and have never used it for that purpose. > > > > The words clutching and straws bring to mind ... > > > > My goal is not to recover the data, Harold, as I already have it. My > goal is to figure out why the numbers are rounded. A few weeks ago I > saw this happen at an organization that I volunteer at, they did loose > data. So this issue has happened more than once, and I would like to > know how to reproduce it to file an issue. Maybe I am doing something > wrong, maybe there is a bug in OOo. But in either case it is a > critical dataloss issue. > > I don't dispute that. I'm trying to find ways to make it happen. Dragging and Paste Special were suspects. OK, they're not guilty ...
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