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title="UNCONFIRMED - EDITING Can't enter formula in 'argument missing, use default value instead' notation"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111992">111992</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>EDITING Can't enter formula in 'argument missing, use default value instead' notation
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.2.7.2 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>minor
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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>Katarina.Behrens@cib.de
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<pre>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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