Hello Steps to reproduce 1. Create a new spreadsheet (same with an existing one) 2. Insert> Names> Define Current behaviour: Open dialog with the error message "Invalid name. Only use letters, numbers and underscore" Expected behavior Open Dialog with : - Display "Define the name and range or formula expression." - Add button disabled / Cancel button enabled On open of the dialog, disable the Add button is enough to avoid "empty" names. So : - Enable Add button when the name is correct - Disable the Add button and display the message "Invalid name. Only use letters, numbers and underscore" only when wrong character used. Display an error message before any user intervention is to me an error in the ergonomics of this feature. I find that unfortunate considering all the improvements cf. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Calc_Range_Names http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-ux-advise/2011-July/000073.html Regards Pierre-Yves
Markus Mohrhard committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6e93e78c85e0c4eea174483f1d27ee38fd00ee21 don't show an error message for empty names in Define Names, fdo#46816
Markus Mohrhard committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f4f0ef5790bd06145d977183da0ee244c5c46058&g=libreoffice-3-5 don't show an error message for empty names in Define Names, fdo#46816 It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.2.
Markus Mohrhard committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3730a7173298814a709a0bcbb2150288ea1c464d&g=libreoffice-3-5-1 don't show an error message for empty names in Define Names, fdo#46816 It will be available already in LibreOffice 3.5.1.
(In reply to comment #3) > It will be available already in LibreOffice 3.5.1. you're great... and fast ! Thank's PYS