Bug 134536 - Writer Table Formulas Don't Support RnCn cell references
Summary: Writer Table Formulas Don't Support RnCn cell references
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Writer-Tables-Formulas Regressions-expression-is-faulty
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Reported: 2020-07-05 23:12 UTC by Michael Warner
Modified: 2025-10-12 03:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Example LO Writer document (9.36 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2020-07-05 23:12 UTC, Michael Warner
Details
Example MS Word Document (13.14 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2020-07-05 23:14 UTC, Michael Warner
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Comparison MSO 2010 and LibreOffice 7.1 master (30.04 KB, image/png)
2020-08-03 15:05 UTC, Xisco Faulí
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Description Michael Warner 2020-07-05 23:12:45 UTC
Created attachment 162669 [details]
Example LO Writer document

MS Word support RnCn style references in table formulas. LibreOffice Writer doesn't.

I have attached some example documents.
Comment 1 Michael Warner 2020-07-05 23:14:06 UTC
Created attachment 162670 [details]
Example MS Word Document
Comment 2 Michael Warner 2020-07-05 23:15:25 UTC
I tried putting R1C1 in brackets, like this:
<R1C1>

But it still didn't work.
Comment 3 Michael Warner 2020-07-05 23:16:05 UTC
Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 503c0d9427e5611a59f7904a3184a51198468266
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2020-08-03 15:05:49 UTC
Created attachment 163903 [details]
Comparison MSO 2010 and LibreOffice 7.1 master
Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2020-08-03 15:06:05 UTC
Reproduced in

Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 32090b018d9ff81659a4c9ed41c64109ebebe4fc
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 sora34ce 2020-09-08 18:08:31 UTC
I've been looking into this issue by some degree. I did notice that <RnCn>, while absolute, doesn't work in LibreOffice, but RnCn does get a random number, as if it assumes A1 style. The formula does work with A1 or B2 and whatnot.

Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 52820b52b3bca45e2db527d1cc5f4488b2e0b9d0
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.15.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 7 Xisco Faulí 2020-12-07 17:46:31 UTC
Still reproducible in

Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 84af20ef3ea72190784e9e7be820684c2558ba8c
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.7; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

values are 0 now
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2022-12-08 03:25:41 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Kira Tubo 2023-10-12 02:36:33 UTC
Reproduced in master build and 3.3:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1ec2e39cf4d5fe0a592bc783fd8bcdc4345c8cbd
CPU threads: 6; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2025-10-12 03:12:38 UTC
Dear Michael Warner,

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