Am 10.04.20 um 15:35 schrieb Patricia Shanahan:
I hope you are not seriously considering changing names that have been the same as long as I can remember (well, maybe not quite back to Visicalc, the first spread sheet I used).

right, there is absolute no need to change this.

Just a kind of non-problem. ;-)

Marcus



On 4/10/2020 6:03 AM, BMCS wrote:
On 10/04/2020 13:03, Peter Kovacs wrote:

Am 10.04.20 um 13:02 schrieb Dave:
My response is in-line with your original post.

On 10/04/2020 10:02, Peter Kovacs wrote:
Does anyone remeber the thinking behind this or has it been always like
this and I just never knew.
To the best of my recollection it has been this way since Sun open
sourced OOo in 2001.
I suspected as much from Pedro's explanation.

I mean I would not notice it if I had not to describe it to someone
else.
Just out of curiosity, what would you consider to be a better
terminology to use for that tab. Obviously the word "Text" would be a
misnomer, since spreadsheet calculations cannot be performed on plain
text, without some form of prior conversion into a numeric format.

an interesting question. Hard to answer.

My choice would be cell characteristics.

If we were looking for an alternative name for the "Format Cells" dialog
that might be a suitable candidate, but the tabs (Font, Font Effects,
Alignment, Borders, Background) are all "Cell Characteristics". We could
then start debating whether or not "Cell Protection" is a characteristic
of a cell :)

I am perfectly comfortable with "Number", but if a change of that tab
name was deemed necessary my vote would go to something like "Type" or
"Class".

Just my 2c worth.


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