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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.penalver@xxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- [upstream] save content as shown cannot be turned off permanently
+ Save content as shown cannot be turned off permanently

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Title:
  Save content as shown cannot be turned off permanently

Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  Invalid
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openoffice.org

  When saving a spreadsheet as .csv file (for example, for export to
  some statistics software), the "save cell content as shown" checkbox
  is enabled by default.

  This is really extremely dangerous, since numerical accuracy will be
  lost when saving in this format (but not when saving in others). It
  happened to me many times, because I forgot to remove that *%&/(!
  checkmark...

  I have seen that there was a discussion in the past about this
  behavior. I still cannot see why it makes that much sense and think
  the potential danger outweighs by far the benefits for some people,
  but would not like to start that discussion again.

  However, I think that

  a) it should be possible to turn off this behavior globally somewhere.
  All people working in the scientific domain will probably do this

  b) at the very least the dialog should remember the last setting, so
  that one does not have to uncheck this box again and again and again
  until one forgets to do it and looses data.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Jan 22 21:26:19 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
  SourcePackage: openoffice.org
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
  XsessionErrors:
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4911): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (thunderbird-bin:4955): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
   (firefox:5108): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
   (firefox:5779): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

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