[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Merging Calc's label range functionality with named range.

[Eike Rathke]

Hi Kohei,

On Tuesday, 2013-07-23 13:47:08 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:

> >Of course it doesn't matter where we actually
> >stick the "defined label" in, having them as part of the database range
> >probably is best because we usually can derive it from the top-row of
> >the database range (don't know currently if Excel allows more than one
> >row for those Table labels, they did a very awkward thing with their
> >labels back then).
> Noted.  Perhaps it was that awkward-ness that prompted them to drop
> this feature in 2007?  I'm just guessing.

Might be one of the reasons (that awkward feature btw was called Stacked
Column Labels, we never implemented that in its implications though).
I guess another reason is the introduction of the XML based file format,
they probably encountered similar problems we do. The automatic lookup
depends on the actual current content of the document, one can quite
easily generate a document using automatic label lookup that when saved
and reloaded again the new lookup actually matches a different cell due
to a nearer cell having the matching content. That was no problem in
binary formats where formulas didn't have to be recompiled. Of course
issues with editing such a formula were also present back then. Sad that
MS introduced it and we had to follow :-/  Having had to implement the
space operator for intersection in this specific case didn't make things
better and already drove me nuts by itself ;-)  Really, space
operator, wtf?!? (yes Excel intersections always work that way)

Remember how the whole story was advertised? Natural Language Formulas ...

<rant off>

  Eike

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