[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 38327] Pivot table converts text values to numbers in column headers

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38327

--- Comment #10 from Nikos <gdna7803 at hotmail.com> 2011-10-24 00:15:13 PDT ---
Unfortunately, I must revise my comment that changing the "Pivot table
category" style solves the problem in my case, since this is the case only in a
very limited number of cases. In other cases the pivot table just returns the
numeric value corresponding to the date it interprets in my data.

I am very disappointed by this behavior of the software. One of the reasons I
moved to Openoffice (back in 2.2) was that the distinction between different
data types (strings vs. numbers) was clearer than in the software we used till
that time. Even though I understand the urge to keep up with a market leader as
well as the necessity to maintain (or achieve) a high level of compatibility,
this is a point where the openoffice/Libreoffice approach up to version 3.3 was
clearly superior.

There are at least 4 bugs describing this behavior, which is creating serious
problems to advanced users, and I have not found a single reaction from a
developer thus far.

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