[mdlug] Why is a blank cell != zero value in OpenOffice-Calc 3.5

[Adam Behnke]

is it a case were the formula is like =a1+b1 ? i'm wondering if
editing the the formulas a bit will fix the issue, like =sum(a1+b1)

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
> With shell scripts the "test" command (aka. "[") treats nulls as strings so
> it may be a general programming convention.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM, R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:56 PM, R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:44 PM, R KANNAN <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> > OpenOffice Users,
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I opened an exiting (from OO 2.2)  spreadsheet in Oo-Calc 3.5 aand
>> > found
>> > >> a
>> > >> > lot of #VALUE in cells where I had a formula prodcing perfectly
>> > >> acceptable
>> > >> > numbers. Then I found that some of the cells where I had blanks were
>> > >> > considered by Oo-3.5 to be strings and that is why all these
>> formulas
>> > are
>> > >> > failing.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Why is a blank cell considered to have a zero numerical value. Is
>> > there a
>> > >> > global setting which does this?
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Thanks for any input.
>> > >>
>> > >> Check the cell formatting? Perhaps that may be having an impact.
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > No. I tried that but did not help. I had to go to each of the blank
>> cells
>> > > referred in the formulas and 'delete contents'. I probably have
>> hundreds
>> > of
>> > > these cells in non-contiguous columns and rows.
>> > >
>> > > This sheet was perfectly fine in OO2.2 :-(
>> > >
>> > > BTW I am using Libre Office 3.5 in Ubuntu 12.04 if it makes any
>> > difference.
>> >
>> > If a cell is an empty string, it probably has ['] as its content.
>> >
>>
>> Nope. All the cells where I successfully managed to fix by 'delete
>> contents' did not have anything.
>>
>> >
>> > You might be able to do a search-and-replace for empty string and
>> > replace it with, well, not sure. Maybe some kind of scripted "for all
>> > cells within this range, call "delete contents" if cell is empty"
>> >
>>
>> I have not written any macros but maybe this is an opportunity for me to
>> learn :-)
>>
>> >
>> > --
>> > :wq
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