Formula
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Formula options
Formula syntax
There are three options. Let's see it by example. In a sample spreadsheet there are two worksheets, Sheet1 and Sheet2. In A1 cell of Sheet1 there is a reference to C4 cell of Sheet2.
Calc A1 - This is the default of %PRODUCTNAME Calc. The reference will be - =$Sheet2.C4
Excel A1 - This is the default of Microsoft Excel. The reference will be - =Sheet2!C4
Excel R1C1 - This is the relative row/column addressing, known from Microsoft Excel. The reference will be - =Sheet2!R[3]C[2]
Use English function names
In %PRODUCTNAME Calc function names can be localized. By default, the check box is off, which means the localized function names are used. Checking this check box will swap localized function names with the English ones. This change takes effect in all of the following areas: formula input and display, function wizard, and formula tips. You can of course uncheck it to go back to the localized function names.
Separators
This option group lets you configure separators in your formula expressions. This comes in handy when, for instance, you want to separate your function parameters by commas (,) instead of semicolons (;).
For example, instead of - =SUM(A1;B1;C1)
you can type - =SUM(A1,B1,C1)
.
Likewise, you can also change the column and row separators for in-line arrays. Previously, an in-line array used semicolons (;) as the column separators and the pipe symbols (|) as the row separators, so a typical in-line array expression looked like this for a 5 x 2 matrix array:
- ={1;2;3;4;5|6;7;8;9;10}
By changing the column separators to commas (,) and the row separators to semicolons (;), the same expression will look like this:
- ={1,2,3,4,5;6,7,8,9,10}
Detailed calculation settings
Here you can configure the formula syntax to use when parsing references given in string parameters. This affects built-in functions such as INDIRECT that takes a reference as a string value.