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authorEike Rathke <erack@redhat.com>2020-02-04 14:59:03 +0100
committerEike Rathke <erack@redhat.com>2020-02-04 15:19:24 +0100
commit34b0364e6289a299fb0b50b5b0d487e37f6e9492 (patch)
tree8397e890bc14f6a553b890ea12ddb808d43b4fe4 /source
parent900d30047e754b7310ffb05a67d280b6ce7b2e7f (diff)
Correct string "has value 0" to "is ignored" for the SUM function
Which doesn't exactly matter for SUM but would for AVERAGE, for example. Change-Id: If2d416123890349f4458ca10274e3fb3dd7d15c5 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/87980 Reviewed-by: Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jenkins
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diff --git a/source/text/scalc/guide/numbers_text.xhp b/source/text/scalc/guide/numbers_text.xhp
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
<h2 id="hd_id1005200903485368">Example</h2>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1005200903485359" role="paragraph">In A1 enter the text <literal>'1e2</literal> (which is converted to the number 100 internally).</paragraph>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1005200903485341" role="paragraph">In A2 enter <literal>=A1+1</literal> (which correctly results in 101).</paragraph>
- <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id891567607263849">The formula <literal>=SUM(A1:A2)</literal>, returns 101 instead of 201 because the conversion does not occur in a range, only for single scalar values. Here, '1e2 is treated as string which has value 0 for the SUM function.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id891567607263849">The formula <literal>=SUM(A1:A2)</literal>, returns 101 instead of 201 because the conversion does not occur in a range, only for single scalar values. Here, '1e2 is treated as string which is ignored for the SUM function.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id611567607779380"><literal>=SUM("1E2";1)</literal> returns #VALUE! because SUM() and some others that iterate over number sequences explicitly check the argument type.</paragraph>
</section>
<h2 id="hd_id871567772424915">Changing the default text to number conversion settings</h2>