Re: [libreoffice-users] Overly aggressive autofomatting issues in LibreOffice

On 26/08/2016 14:13, M Henri Day wrote:

> - 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

a)The actual research paper is:
 Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
    Mark Ziemann,
    Yotam Eren and
    Assam El-OstaEmail author
Genome Biology201617:177
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
© The Author(s). 2016
Published: 23 August 2016

Downloadable from
http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7

b) Issues with gene researchers using Excel were noted as long as 1999,
with the Human Gene Project. (Researchers are still correcting errors
made by that project, because of their over-reliance on Excel, instead
of using a real database.)

c) Ignoring the issue of using the wrong tool for the job, the majority
of errors are a direct result of the researchers not knowing how to
correctly use the tool that they were using. What doesn't help matters,
is that the researchers don't realise they are having problems, until
after the fact.

> some attention should be devoted to making turning off autoformatting
in Calc easier for users

Should people be encouraged to use Calc for a task for which it is
neither designed, nor suitable for, rather than using Base, which is
designed to be a database?

Maybe write a user guide: _Abusing Calc: How to do things without
totally destroying your data, when using Calc for that for which it is
neither designed to do, nor is suitable for_:
* Two chapters on using Calc as a text editor;
* Three chapters on using Calc as a database;
* Two chapters on using Calc as a drawing program;

jonathon




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