[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 115078] Automatically insert a decimal point like in Excel

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115078

--- Comment #15 from cknapp at protonmail.com ---
Surely Microsoft has some reason to maintain this feature for 20 years? If only
a few excel users find this feature useful, surely that would justify MS
removing this feature from excel? 

Yes it's 1 keystroke that you're removing. But that adds up over time. I come
from a Mechanical Engineering background and CAD softwares advertise fewer
mouseclicks as a selling point, because when you are clicking all day for days,
weeks, months, it DOES add up. Improved efficiency is always value added for
the customer in my opinion. 

I know I'm beating a dead horse now but let's say a user enters on average, 10
values a minute for 8 hours everyday, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Each
value requires one decimal point. Time to press that key might be 0.5 seconds.
That still adds up to 173 hours a year. Even if you figure that's an
overestimate, and cut it in half, that's 86 hours a year spent performing an
action that could be automated. Figure that person earns $15 an hour, that
action costs the employer $1300 a year per employee that is performing this
type of job. 

Obviously any of you could figure that out but the comment regarding "it's just
one key" is silly. So is adding values with the + key, yet we have an autosum
function. 


I can't code unfortunately, but I'm willing to help in any other way that I
can. Thanks

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