• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Openoffice does this too, and the worst part is that it will take something and interpret it as a date, but then you force it to interpret it as a number, instead of using the number you typed it will use the index number of the date which is a completely different and useless value.

    In short, it takes the number you put in and converts it into a date against your will, and you can’t change it back. It would be like if you typed in “sunshine” and it interpreted that as the temperature of a sunbeam and put that in the cell instead of the fucking thing you typed. So annoying!!

    Another minor gripe is how their PI() uses enough digits that it lands on a 5 and rounds up, which breaks all sorts of sine math. If they had rounded down or added/removed a digit of pi that wouldn’t be an issue. I have to intentionally add error to my functions just so they work.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      I don’t know, whether these things have been fixed by now, but you should mind that OpenOffice’s development has been basically dead since 2010. All the core devs moved over to LibreOffice, basically because Oracle had bought Sun Microsystems, who previously held the “OpenOffice” brand. You really want to be using LibreOffice these days.

    • xpinchx@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Unrelated but alt+e+s+v is so ingrained into my muscle memory. I should really get a macro pad

    • droans@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Ctrl+Shift+V exists now which does the exact same thing.

      Actually it’s a bit better. Excel always ignores alt codes for the first key press or two after switching windows.

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      Programmers who have to deal with data I/O and SQL regularly need to use a spreadsheet to examine, columnize and validate data manually, so that data structures are confirmed to be correct. Nobodys programming in Excel per se, but its still a ubiquitous tool that we use on the regular.