[Libreoffice] [PATCH] make STR_MERGE_NOTEMPTY more understandable

Regina Henschel rb.henschel at t-online.de
Thu Nov 10 02:22:27 PST 2011


Hi,

Maxime de Roucy schrieb:
> Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 15:15 -0500, Kohei Yoshida a écrit :
>> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 18:40 +0100, Maxime de Roucy wrote:
>>
>>> Summary :
>>> Isn't "Should the contents of all cells be concatenated and moved into
>>> the merged cell?" better ?
>>
>> I like the following better:
>>
>> Do you want to merge the contents of the selected cells into one cell?
>> Clicking 'No' will only retain the content of the upper-left cell.
>
> I like it.
>
> The "merge" word could be changed to "concatenate" which is more
> precise ... but for me both are OK.
>
> The end of the sentence "into one cell" could be removed since it a bit
> obvious.
>
> "Do you want to (merge or concatenate) the contents of the selected
> cells (into one cell or nothing) ?"
> "Clicking 'No' will only retain the content of the upper-left cell."
>
> What do you think ?

"Clicking 'No' will only retain the content of the upper-left cell."

That is wrong. The content remains in the hidden cells and can still be 
used in formulas. That is a used feature, when you will show a different 
content to the user than you need for calculation.

Kind regards
Regina


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