[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 111992] New: EDITING Can't enter formula in 'argument missing, use default value instead' notation

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            Bug ID: 111992
           Summary: EDITING Can't enter formula in 'argument missing, use
                    default value instead' notation
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.2.7.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: Katarina.Behrens at cib.de

Description:
TBH I don't know if this is a bug or a feature. Additionally I've been unable
to find any (Excel) documentation on this kind of formula notation so I
shamelessly hope someone on QA team can help me out here

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new spreadsheet doc
2. Enter =TODAY() into A1
3. Enter =TEXT(,A1) into B1

Actual Results:  
'42970' appears in B1 (or whatever the current date is). It works that way in
MS Excel

Expected Results:
Err511 appears instead


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: 

Additional Info:
According to erAck this odd formula: =TEXT(,$address) means something like "if
an argument is missing/unspecified, use its default value" i.e. it should be an
equivalent of =TEXT($address, "@") where "@" is a general number format. 

Alas it won't work like that in Calc, only in Excel


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