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Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't... by rmxt on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:16AM (#9069246)
Dragging down on "1, 2, 4, 8" in Excel 2007 gives me "9.5, 11.8, 14.1, 16.4, 18.7".... but maybe newer versions have gotten better.
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Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't... by jackmaney on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:54AM (#9069483)
Out of curiosity, I just tried the same thing on Excel for Mac 2011, and got the same results.
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Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't... by msandford on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:22PM (#9069670)
Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I seem to remember Excel doing some intuitive series extensions and both LibreOffice and OpenOffice not doing things that I would have found as intuitive.

They're probably not unreasonable fall-back strategies if something isn't strictly linear, but just because I understand why the programmer might have done that doesn't mean it makes sense in general.

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Re:Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't... by MrRogers on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @01:14PM (#9070005)
Excel 2010 for Windows also produced the same results.
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