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At 06:06 04/06/2011 -0700, Nobody Noname wrote:
Actually I had never noticed that spreadsheets (all including Excel) ignore text values mixed with numbers. This worries me a lot! I work with 300.000+ line spreadsheets and if one line has a text value (because of a typo) I wouldn't notice that. Is there any setting that triggers a warning (instead of ignoring the cell(s)) in this situation?

One useful facility in this case is Value Highlighting. Go to View | Value Highlighting or press Ctrl+F8. The font colour for text (temporarily) becomes black, for numbers and other values blue, and for formulae green. (Formulae should be no problem, since it's possible to construct them sufficiently carefully that you can be sure of the type of the result, of course.) Repeat the process to toggle the facility back off.

Not that I'd want to go looking through 300,000 blue values looking for a rogue black one ...

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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