Re: [office-formula] 6.15.59 SUBTOTAL

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Eike Rathke <>
Date
2009-03-23T17:13:36+00:00
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Re: [office-formula] 6.15.59 SUBTOTAL
Hi,

On Tuesday, 2009-03-10 12:19:01 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> > 1.  I believe that the 2nd parameter of the function should be of type reference.  This is not reflected in the syntax or the test cases.
> 
> Why shouldn't explicit values be allowed for argument 2?

I also see no reason to disallow them.


> > 2.  The definition should describe how to handle hidden rows.  Current
> > implementers of SUBTOTAL functions (Calc, Excel) ignore rows hidden by
> > Autofilter, but not manually hidden rows.
> 
> Gnumeric also implements SUBTOTAL and ignores neither rows hdden by an
> autofilter nor manually hidden rows.

Ignoring filtered rows is a feature of SUBTOTAL calls. And yes, the
draft clearly misses a definition for this.

  Eike

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