Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Spreadsheet editor: the sign ' makes numbers be ignored

Made a similar but opposite request in 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140050. Numbers are treated 
as text with a trailing apostrophe (and converted to negative when bracketed). 
All spreadsheet tools have this well-known behavior for sake of accessibility. 
By default, you see numbers right-aligned while text is left.

Some kind of data type highlighter could be handy, OTOH. What I have in mind is 
a command that toggles all formatting off and shows text with a certain 
background color, numbers, formulas etc.

On 10.02.21 20:42, earthballoon wrote:
> Hey there,
> i just spent an hour trying to fix a broken calculation result and almost
> went crazy.
> The issue turned out to be a number with a --> ' <--- in front of it. That
> is not visible, but only in the edit field of the cell.
> In my case it led to a different result than in my accounting software, I
> was summing up a bunch of cells.
>
> Before I had switched from English to German "Locale" settings, so that
> numbers would be displayed with a comma instead of point. I don't know how
> this sign got before the number, but in any case it led to wrong calculating
> result.
>
> I consider this very dangerous, since I rely on the results for pretty
> important stuff....
> And hope that the community picks this up in some way! ;)
> thanks, peace
>
>
>
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