Re: [libreoffice-users] LO calc, how to copy partial sheet onto a new sheet

At 14:08 03/03/2018 -0500, Bonly "Art" Bonly wrote:
> Problem solved, ...

Good-oh!

At 09:51 03/03/2018 -0500, Bonly "Art" Bonly wrote:
> ... no matter how I copy it, the formulas are not copied properly.

I suspect there *is* a way to do this, but no matter ...

> ... I can edit each cell to make it right, but it's far to much 
> effort/time to edit all the formulas in each of the columns. I want 
> 365 days worth of data, each day has 8 entries, so I would have to 
> edit almost 3000 (365*8) individual formulas.

No, you wouldn't. Any spreadsheet with 3000 individual formulae gives 
incorrect results. Yes, really! It is humanly impossible to enter 
3000 separate formulae without making some errors. Spreadsheets are 
fragile computation devices and entering many individual formulae is 
the way to guarantee erroneous results.

Instead you probably want at most eight carefully crafted formulae 
which, when filled down 365 rows, will generate the formulae you 
need. Indeed, it may even be possible to create a single formula and 
use it across eight columns, sheets, or whatever as well as filled 
down 365 rows. So whatever the copying did to your formulae, you 
would need to re-create at most eight formulae, not nearly 3000. 
Constructing spreadsheets this way instead of piecemeal is essential 
if you aspire to reliability.

Brian Barker  


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