Issue 118090 - Misleading display and Help for Goal Seek
Summary: Misleading display and Help for Goal Seek
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.3
Hardware: PC Windows Vista
: P5 (lowest) Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2011-05-28 09:01 UTC by Judy Jones
Modified: 2013-08-23 11:00 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Judy Jones 2011-05-28 09:01:29 UTC 
When I run Calc's "Goal Seek..." from the Tools menu, it runs and eventually displays a dialog box containing: 
   Goal Seek successful.
   Insert result (nnn) into current cell?
   [Yes]   [No]

That is misleading because selecting "Yes" inserts the value into the "Variable Cell" [specified in the initial dialog box] and not whatever cell is currently selected in the worksheet.

There is also at least one other dialog with "Goal Seek not successful".
The one that I have seen does not specify where the result will be inserted.

Also the Help contains: 
   After a successful search, a dialog with the results opens, 
   allowing you to apply the result and the target value directly to the cell.

That is misleading because the functionality only allows applying the result [which may not be anything like the target value].
 
I have OOO330m20 Build:9567
Comment 1 Judy Jones 2011-05-28 09:33:22 UTC 
Sorry but I meant to tchange the priority to P5 (lowest).
Comment 2 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2012-06-13 12:32:09 UTC 
getting rid of value "enhancement" for field "severity".
For enhancement the field "issue type" shall be used.
Comment 3 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2012-06-13 13:48:13 UTC 
changing "issue type" to "enhancement" in favor of "severity=enhancement"
Comment 4 Edwin Sharp 2013-08-23 10:37:34 UTC 
Wording need correction.

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