Bug 116607 - EDITING & FORMATTING: Percentage formatted cell cannot be use for addition
Summary: EDITING & FORMATTING: Percentage formatted cell cannot be use for addition
Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.2.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2018-03-24 15:25 UTC by eobet
Modified: 2019-12-17 12:53 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2019-12-17 12:53 UTC, Vera Blagoveschenskaya
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Description eobet 2018-03-24 15:25:39 UTC
Description:
1. Enter a number in a cell.
2. Click the % button in the tool bar.
3. Enter a number in a new cell.
4. In a third cell, press = and then click on the second cell, press + and click on the first cell.

The cell will now reads "#VÄRDE!" when it really should read a decimal value.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a number in a cell.
2. Click the % button in the tool bar.
3. Enter a number in a new cell.
4. In a third cell, press = and then click on the second cell, press + and click on the first cell.

Actual Results:  
#VÄRDE!

Expected Results:
A decimal value containing the added percentage.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
This feels like Excel 101 and you're up to version 6 without this working?


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Comment 1 eobet 2018-03-24 15:56:54 UTC
You have to use a decimal percentage value, like 1.5 for example.

It sort of works with whole percentages, but it likes to convert numbers to the thousands when you switch from decimal to percentage formatting.

It's all very confusing behavior.
Comment 2 Xavier Van Wijmeersch 2018-03-24 16:18:16 UTC
confirm

Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 7422687028d33a9a4029aeb9265bc59578f5aef9
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.14; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: nl-BE (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-03-29 04:02:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Vera Blagoveschenskaya 2019-12-17 12:52:04 UTC
Well, I cannot reproduce it for 

Version: 6.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 3e33a11d8a553a99bd5f23940a65c301924198fb
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: kf5; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-12-16_11:03:40
Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 Vera Blagoveschenskaya 2019-12-17 12:53:46 UTC
Created attachment 156620 [details]
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