Issue 75638

Summary: Number format inkonsistent when using formula
Product: Calc Reporter: niederbayern <eva-email>
Component: editingAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues, kpalagin
Version: OOo 2.2 RC3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---
Attachments:
Description Flags
File for reproduction of problem A as discribed
none
File for reproduction of problem B as discribed none

Description niederbayern 2007-03-22 10:44:27 UTC 
Situation A:

One cell, having a special number format, contains some numeric value. A second
cell, having no special number format (number format is "Standard"), contains a
formula that is referencing to the first cell. The result of the formula in the
second cell shows up using the number format of the first cell. Nice feature.

Problem A:

When you change the number format of the first cell, the result in the second
cell is still being shown using the old number format of the first cell. In
order to refresh the application of the number format in the second cell you
need to retype the formula or you need to save, close and reopen the document.

To reproduce this bug, try the attached document problemA.ods:

(1) You can see the value 100 twice shown in number format "Currency".

(2) Note that A1 contains the numeric value 100 and has the number format
"Currency". Note that B1 contains a formula and has the number format "Standard".

(3) Change the number format of A1 from "Currency" to "Percent".

(4) Note that B1 is still showing Currency-Format.

(5.1) Retypte the formula (=A1) in B1
OR
(5.2) Save, close and reopen the document.

(6) Note that finally B1 is showing Percent-Format as well.


Situation B:

Now we have an Excel spreadsheet. One cell, having a special number format,
contains some numeric value. A second cell, having no special number format
(number format is "Standard"), contains a formula that is referencing to the
first cell. The result of the formula in the second cell shows up using
_no_special_ number format.

Problem B:

Even if you save the Excel file as ODF an reopen it, it still does not apply the
special number format of the first cell in the second cell. This is very
confusing, since now we do have a document similar to Sitation A but its
behaviour is different.

To reproduce this bug, try the attached document problemB.xls:

(1) You can see the value 100 shown in number format "Currency" in A1 and you
can see the value 100 shown in no special number format in B1.

(2) Note that A1 contains the numeric value 100 and has the number format
"Currency". Note that B1 contains a formula and has the number format "Standard".

(3) Note that this is a different behaviour to situation A using an ODF document
as discribed above.

(4) Save the document as an ODF. Reopen it.

(5) Note that B1 still does not apply the special number format of A1.

(6) Note that this still is a different behaviour to situation A using an ODF
document as discribed above.
Comment 1 niederbayern 2007-03-22 10:45:35 UTC 
Created attachment 43853 [details]
File for reproduction of problem A as discribed
Comment 2 niederbayern 2007-03-22 10:46:19 UTC 
Created attachment 43854 [details]
File for reproduction of problem B as discribed
Comment 3 niederbayern 2007-03-22 11:13:21 UTC 
Problem B has been clarified. Sorry for that.

Please focus on problem A. Thank you.

Problem A can be resolved by pressing Shift-Ctrl-F9.

Changing Issue type from DEFECT to ENHANCEMENT though.

It is not favorable that one must press Shift-Ctrl-F9 every time after changing
a number format, especially because the user might not know about other cells in
his spreadsheet, that take over the number format from referenced cells.
Comment 4 kpalagin 2007-03-25 16:31:28 UTC 
Confirming problem A - number format gets updated on either reopen or Shift-
Ctrl-F9.
Comment 5 frank 2007-05-02 12:20:59 UTC 
Hi,

this is a double to Issue 35822.

Saskia and Frank

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 35822 ***
Comment 6 frank 2007-05-02 12:22:20 UTC 
closed double
Comment 7 niederbayern 2007-05-02 13:16:48 UTC 
Reopening.

Issue #35822 has been closed for the following reason: "we act in the same way
as Excel does"

This is not true! When creating a concatenate by a formula, Excel automatically
sets the number format of the cell. Calc does not change the number format of
the cell, although Calc displays the value as if the number format had been set.
In order to restore the display of the value in standard format, in Excel one
can set the number format of the cell back to standard. In Calc you cannot reset
the number format of the the cell to standard, it still is standard.

The only way to update the wrong display in Calc is Shift-Ctrl-F9.

Suggestion:

When Calc displays a value in a certain number format by taking over the format
of a referred cell the display should be automatically updated when the number
format of the referred cell changes.

Alternatively:

Behave like Excel. This means, taking over the number format from the referred
cell must result in a change of the number format as if the user had set the
format via the cell format dialoque. 

This is an RFE. Please don´t close a reasonable RFE by referring to an invalid
DEFECT. Thank you. :-)
Comment 8 frank 2007-05-02 13:36:49 UTC 
Hi,

the problem is just that the mentioned Issue deals exactly with this, a view
setting doesn't trigger a recalculation. But Ok, let's re-assign to the
requirements team.

Frank
Comment 9 frank 2007-05-02 13:37:20 UTC 
Hi,

the problem is just that the mentioned Issue deals exactly with this, a view
setting doesn't trigger a recalculation. But Ok, let's re-assign to the
requirements team.

Frank
Comment 10 frank 2007-10-12 12:49:54 UTC 
*** Issue 80861 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***