Re: [libreoffice-users] #NAME? error in valid formula in xlsx format spreadsheet

Hi :)
Are you saying that the problem doesn't happen if you save in Xls or Ods formats?  If the problem 
only happens with XlsX format then can you
1.  avoid using that format and try to keep "an original" in either Ods or Xls?  Obviously Ods is 
the prefered one but if you need to share with MS Office users then Xls might be needed.  
2.  File a bug-report about the XlsX problem
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Eric J Owens <myd0j0@yahoo.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Monday, 21 January 2013, 19:59
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] #NAME? error in valid formula in xlsx format spreadsheet
>
> TIA!
>
> I have an xlsx format spreadsheet with several formulas:
>
> =PRODUCT(SUM(months("10/21/2012",NOW(),1),months("11/6/2012",NOW(),1)) ,50)
>
> When I close and re-open the spreadsheet, the cell with the formula gives
> me the #NAME? error.  The first time I saw this and after quite a while
> trying to determine what was wrong, I figured out that nothing at all was
> wrong with the formula.  All it takes for the spreadsheet to do the
> calculation is to modify the cell.  For example, changing just one of the
> "months()" functions to "MONTHS()" and then pressing enter will allow the
> cell to calculate the value, even though only one of the months() functions
> has been capitalized.  In fact, thinking that there might be some option
> making the function be case specific, when I first noticed the problem, I
> had tried to capitalize the months() function, but when I hit enter, the
> upper case was subsequently changed to lower case and the calculation was
> performed anyway.  When the spreadsheet is saved in ods or xls format, the
> formula is calculated as would be expected after a close/re-open and the
> months() is upper cased to MONTHS().
>
> Since I know how to fix the error after re-opening, it isn't a big deal,
> but it sure would be nice not having to edit all the formulas just to get
> my calculations performed.  Any idea why closing and re-opening the xlsx
> spreadsheet causes the formula to error when there really is no error?
> Other than saving in ods or xls format, any idea how to fix the issue?
>
> Thanks!
>
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