Hi "prholland", prholland schrieb:
The following screenshot is taken from a spreadsheet that previously showed "00:00" in LibreOffice 3.3.2, where LibreOffice 3.4.0 is now showing "#VALUE!" (NB: all the cells are formatted as Time values, and the "text" cells contain "-"): http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3023141/%23VALUE-screenshot.png
The ODF spec has some rules for converting text to numbers. Those conversion is different whether the text occurs in a simple calculation with operator or the text occurs in a range in function SUM or similar. As LO claims to follow ODF spec, it has to respect this.
In future you have to respect, that + - * / ^ will not work on text. You have to ensure, that the operands are numbers.
In OOo this can be done by the function N. Unfortunately the spec makes it "implemention defined" what N does with text. In OOo N returns 0 for text, which I think is useful. In LO it returns #VALUE although the help saws it would return 0. So this behavior seems a bug to me in the N function. Otherwise I would have recommend to use N(C1)-N(B1) instead of C1-B1.
I notice, that Tom has already found the solution, to enter 0 and format it to show - .
Kind regards Regina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmaster@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
