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title="UNCONFIRMED - Feature request: Auto filling cells by example / context of neighbouring cells, aka "Flash Fill""
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109003">109003</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Feature request: Auto filling cells by example / context of neighbouring cells, aka "Flash Fill"
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.3.4.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Calc
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>gerry.treppel@googlemail.com
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<pre>Please add a feature to Calc that auto-fills cells based on context of
neighbouring cells and examples of correct entries by the user. Spreadsheet
cell content usually follows a certain pattern and it is a frequent use case
that part of this pattern is needed for further analysis in other cells.
LibreOffice Calc should be able to automatically extract/autofill the relevant
piece of the neigbouring cell content based on examples entered by the user.
Example 1: I want to fill the last name in column B based on the full name in
column A.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
Bjoern Michaelsen Bjoern
Armin le Grand Armin
Katarina Behrens Katarina
András Timár ?
Michael Meeks ?
Tomaž Vajngerl ?
Caolan McNamara ?
I give three examples and expect Calc to fill the remaining cells in column B
correctly based on my example.
Example 2: I want to fill the first character of the last name in column B
based on the full name in column A.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
Bjoern Michaelsen M.
Armin le Grand G.
Katarina Behrens B.
András Timár ?
Michael Meeks ?
Tomaž Vajngerl ?
Caolan McNamara ?
I give three examples and expect Calc to fill the remaining cells in column B
correctly based on my example.
Example 3: I have variable names which follow a certain pattern in column A and
I want to extract the middle part for column B:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
aw16_treatA_total treatA
ch28_ebsoZ_total ebsoZ
adi43_treatZ_other treatZ
ch45_treatAA_beso ?
zh123_midA_total ?
ph45_midZZ_other ?
sdi345_treatT_total ?
I give three examples and expect Calc to fill the remaining cells in column B
correctly based on my example.
The requested enhancement corresponds to the "Flash Fill" feature introduced
with MS Excel 2013. For more information, see:
<a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-AutoFill-and-Flash-Fill-2e79a709-c814-4b27-8bc2-c4dc84d49464">https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-AutoFill-and-Flash-Fill-2e79a709-c814-4b27-8bc2-c4dc84d49464</a></pre>
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