Re: [SLUG] OpenOffice Calc function

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 17:00:48 EST


On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> Thus draeath hast written on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:21:43PM -0500, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
>>> =CELL("contents"; "ADDRESS(2;23;2)")
>
>>> That still gets me "#REF!". I think what it's doing is interpreting
>>> ADDRESS(2;23;2) as a string, not evaluating it and taking the return
>>> value.
>
>> I wonder if there is anything that forces evalualtion? I tried a quick
>> test with eval() but it doesn't do what I would expect, and I fail to
>> find a function reference in help.
>
> Try with single quotes " ' " or graves " ` "....

There's no EVAL function, but both
=CELL("contents"; 'address(2;23;2)')
and
=CELL("contents"; `ADDRESS(2;23;2)`)
give #NAME? ("unknown function"). Sigh. There HAS to be a way...

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