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

On 2016-08-27 06:23, toki wrote:
> 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
And don't forget calc as a photo album.

--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted