Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 54748
Sorting should be intelligent about headings
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:12:27 UTC
If the sorting toolbar button is used to sort a column with a non-numeric cell followed by multiple numeric cells, then Excel will intelligently deduce that the first cell is a header, and will sort just the numeric cells. Calc blindly sorts the entire column. In one organization (NECTEC in Thailand), the helpdesk reported this as a frequent complaint from users migrating from Excel to Calc.
Created attachment 29634 [details] Example that can be used to compare Excel and Calc behaviour
I have a patch to solve this requirement. Please consider this patch. Regard,
Created attachment 29749 [details] patch for ignore sorting header when use sort button in toolbar.
Hi Niklas, please have a look at this one and re-target as needed. Frank
The patch isn't all that intelligent. It just always assumes "with headers" instead of "no headers", which is wrong in at least as many cases.
duplicate with issue 22758 ?
Yes, duplicate. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 22758 ***
closing duplicate