On 27/08/16 00:13, M Henri Day wrote:
As a research scientist of over 28 years, I do NOT believe the problem is with the spread sheet software but merely due to poor proof reading of the author and (presumably papers are sent for independent review before publication) by the independent reviewer. If this problem has been known for 10 years then even more shame on the authors and reviewers. Spreadsheets are meant for mathematical use (hence Open Office Calc). If you use a program for something other than it primary purpose the you need to take steps to ensure the appropriate steps to protect your data integrity.This *Wapo* article ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors/) - while dealing more specifically with Microsoft's Excel, should, as noted in the next-to-last paragraph, give even LibreOffice developers pause. If the claim that LibreOffice behaves like Microsoft Office in this particular respect is indeed true, then I submit that some attention should be devoted to making turning off autoformatting in Calc easier for users.... Henri
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