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--- Comment #20 from blackton2002-mail@yahoo.com ---
(In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #19)
It is out of my understanding why one would actually break an existing and
working functionality, just for the sake of pleasing newcomers with an Excel
background.

My suggestion is just to put in exchange of each other F4<->Shift F4
functionality everywhere. That wouldn't lead to a break in working
functionality.

If the Excel users are heavily using that F4 shortcut, then learning it is a
breeze. For the ones who don't use it (often), then they'll have to refer to
the help system, which is what they would do with Excel, anyway.
Given all the pros and cons that are being exposed in this report, I think a
status quo (ie, keep the Shift-F4 shortcut for Calc absolute refs and F4 for
datasource display) is the better solution, by far.


This is not changing that users are facing waste with Shift+F4 as it creates
unneeded motion in the sense of Tachi Ohno's TPS.
If your point is that excel users shall learn their way I have to object that.
It distracts users, users donate or pay indirectly to the project or just
distribute the software further. If we can increase the number of users by such
a simple change it is folly not doing it because it means more cash for
development.
Hence status quo is not the better solution. It's not even the lean one.

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