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Sorry but I can't replicate your problem. As soon as I click on the green arrow after changing the value of G12, LO immediately updates the value of cell containing the formula.
I'm using LO version Version 4.0.3.3. So no bug that I can find.
jdk
what do you think should be the value of the calculation if G12 is undefined? Are you expecting an error to be thrown?
Evo2.
If I do the same thing in excel, that is, I delete the contents of G12, then the formula updates immediately with the value of G12 taken as 0. That is what I expected in calc. I was not expecting an error returned.
If I paste the formula back into the cell it re-calculates as if G12, which is empty, is 0. If I place a value in G12 it automatically recalculates. If I delete the contents of G12 the formula does not recalculate and it now contains an incorrect value.
If I press the delete key in G12 the formula field updates immediately
If I press Backspace in G12 I get a box with options. I simply hit enter, G12 becomes 0 and the formula field updates correctly
If I hit the space bar in G12 and then hit enter, G12 is blank and the formula field becomes #VALUE!
If I do the same thing in excel, that is, I delete the contents of G12, then the formula updates immediately with the value of G12 taken as 0.
Wow, that sounds like dangerous behaviour. But, if it that is what excel does, it could possibly be what calc is supposed to do. Is there any documentation for calc that states what the expected behaviour is?
If I press the delete key in G12 the formula field updates immediately
If I press Backspace in G12 I get a box with options. I simply hit enter, G12 becomes 0 and the formula field updates correctly
If I hit the space bar in G12 and then hit enter, G12 is blank and the formula field becomes #VALUE!
More information is required to research further
Cheers
I click on G12 and hit the delete key.
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Originally Posted by evo2
Hi,
Wow, that sounds like dangerous behaviour. But, if it that is what excel does, it could possibly be what calc is supposed to do. Is there any documentation for calc that states what the expected behaviour is?
I would argue that variables being silently set to zero, does result in an incorrect value. No high level language that I've ever used does it that way. Use of an undefined variable should result in an error, not be silently ignored. But maybe that is one of the peculiarities of a spreadsheet as a high level language.
I would argue that variables being silently set to zero, does result in an incorrect value. No high level language that I've ever used does it that way. Use of an undefined variable should result in an error, not be silently ignored. But maybe that is one of the peculiarities of a spreadsheet as a high level language.
Cheers,
Evo2.
Understand where you're coming from but I don't think a spreadsheet should behave like a programming language. Variables can be set or assigned to cells and in that case there might be an issue if the contents is deleted. But that shouldn't be the case for the cell, only the variable - at least I've never seen a spreadsheet behave that way.
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