Bug 104933 - EDITING: Find and replace does not apply formulas when replacing blank cells
Summary: EDITING: Find and replace does not apply formulas when replacing blank cells
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.0 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Find-Search
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Reported: 2016-12-26 17:49 UTC by Santiago Tórtora
Modified: 2024-09-28 03:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Santiago Tórtora 2016-12-26 17:49:32 UTC
Description:
When I use Find & Replace to replace the contents of a cell with a formula, the matching cells are replaced with the results of that formula, as expected. However when I use Find & Replace to replace some empty cells, instead of the result of the formula the blank cells are replaced with the formula as if it were text.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write some text in some cells, leave some empty
2. Select a range of cells that include some empty cells
3. From the Edit menu, open the Find & Replace tool.
4. Leave the "Search For" field empty and put a simple formula in the "Replace With" field (for example =SUM(1,2))
5. Try the same thing but this time copy the value of a non-empty cell and paste that in the "Search For" field.

Actual Results:  
The empty cells were replaced with cells containing the literal text =SUM(1,2)

Expected Results:
The empty cells should contain the result of =SUM(1,2), that is, the number 3.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
As a workaround, manually entering the formulas instead of using find & replace works. However it is tedious and impractical on large spreadsheets.


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2016-12-26 21:27:29 UTC
Repro.
Version: 5.2.4.1 (x64)
Build ID: 9b50003582f07ac674d6451e411e9b77cccd2b22
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: default; 
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); Calc: group
Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 7a1add76d542e9929c1feab9e06949990e236616
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2016-12-22_23:56:14
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); Calc: CL
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2017-12-27 03:25:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Santiago Tórtora 2017-12-27 13:25:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Timur 2017-12-27 16:46:42 UTC
In OO it's not possible to replace empty cells, so started with LO 3.3.
Repro with 6.1+ master.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2018-12-28 03:46:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Xavier Van Wijmeersch 2018-12-28 17:54:50 UTC
still repro

Version: 6.2.0.1.0+
Build ID: e0de69e4006082d73c202308733824410d5fa02e
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
Locale: nl-BE (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2022-09-28 03:32:37 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2024-09-28 03:17:09 UTC
Dear Santiago Tórtora,

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