[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107901] Format Cells dialog overwrites user selection

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107901

--- Comment #18 from Kevin <timbacontent at gmail.com> ---
Now that I'm thinking about this again, I'm remembering the core problem:
unlike Excel, you are differentiating between the right border of cell A1 and
the left border of cell B1, but your interface (like Excel) shows only one
border (as it should), and you've added the confusing "remove border"
checkboxes. You took one of the few good parts of Excel and made it needlessly
more complicated - adding confusion and many bugs, but no additional
functionality as far as I can see. 


I was extremely frustrated with Excel and when I heard about Libre, I was
thrilled that (I thought) others were as frustrated as I was and had set out to
create a friendly, smart spreadsheet program. I worked very hard on testing
this for a long time, then threw up my hands in frustration that nothing was
getting fixed and the core philosophy of making a better Excel seemed to have
been a silly fantasy on my part. Still, after more than a year and many new
versions, I expected that when I came back to it, at least some of the problems
I spent so much effort reporting would have been addressed. This problem is
precisely as it was when I left it. If you look through my reports, you'll find
a wonderful, elaborate spreadsheet showing all of the harmonies to all the
Beatles songs. If someone on your team who's interested in that will take a
look at it and try to add more musical data and make it look good, you'll see
why I'm so frustrated, why I took the time to report all those bugs and why the
design of Calc is fundamentally flawed from a visual point of view.
Spreadsheets are not just for math - they're also for making visual
presentations that require more power than Word/Writer tables. You've improved
on many aspects of Excel, but at the same time you're created new problems not
in Excel. I thought the strategy would have been to start with a cleaner, more
elegant, smaller-footprint version of Excel without the bugs and then add the
graphic and work-flow functionality that Excel users have been crying out for
all these years.

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