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Where can I post questions on how do construct formulas in Onlyoffice/Libreoffice spreadsheets? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by BlindFrog@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Short term: I'm trying to automate transcribing a list from:
A
123
234
B
456
567
789
C
345

Into an array/table
123, A
234, A
456, B
567, B
789, B
345, C

Long term answer I'm looking for: where's a lemmy community I can ask questions like this (like about using formulas in Librecalc/Onlyoffice suite/maybe VBA with them too) in the future?

Or, if not yet established on lemmy, recommended librecalc/Onlyoffice forums?

Thank you for your time.

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[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How can you distinguish the the alpha cells from the numeric cells?

If you can fit that distinction in an “if” condition I would start by making an adjacent column along the lines of “if left cell is alpha then left cell else above cell”. Then you’ll have what you need except you’ll have some rows of AA BB etc. You could then either delete those rows (but only after copying and pasting values — not formulas) or better yet make a pivot table.

[–] Donovar@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I usually divide a cell's value by 1. A value that isn't numeric will throw an error. Combining that with ISERROR or IFERROR, you can do some pretty powerful stuff.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, there are plenty of ways of doing that, but I was assuming OP’s sheet had other types of cells and that the A’s and 123s were a minimal working example.

[–] Donovar@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And you were correct! I take sample data too literally lol

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Also: this website shows up in my search results a lot. I know it’s not a Lemmy community, but maybe we should make a spreadsheets community if there isn’t one already!