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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<helpdocument version="1.0">
+
+<!--
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+ *
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+ *
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+ -->
+
+
+<meta>
+ <topic id="textscalc0502140000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+ <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Error Codes in %PRODUCTNAME Calc</title>
+ <filename>/text/scalc/05/02140000.xhp</filename>
+ </topic>
+ </meta>
+ <body>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3146797"><bookmark_value>error codes;list of</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark><comment>mw deleted "%PRODUCTNAME Calc;error codes"</comment>
+<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3146797" role="heading" level="1"><link href="text/scalc/05/02140000.xhp" name="Error Codes in %PRODUCTNAME Calc">Error Codes in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc</link></paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150275" role="paragraph">The following table is an overview of the error messages for <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc. If the error occurs in the cell that contains the cursor, the error message is displayed on the <emph>Status Bar</emph>.</paragraph>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id0202201010205429"><bookmark_value>### error message</bookmark_value></bookmark>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154634"><bookmark_value>invalid references; error messages</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>error messages;invalid references</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>#REF error message</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148428"><bookmark_value>invalid names; error messages</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>#NAME error message</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark>
+ <table id="tbl_id3147559">
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153968" role="tablehead">Error Code</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3125863" role="tablehead">Message</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151112" role="tablehead">Explanation</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1668467" role="tablecontent" localize="false">###</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3165766" role="tablecontent">none</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3169266" role="tablecontent">The cell is not wide enough to display the contents.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1668468" role="tablecontent" localize="false">#FMT</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3165767" role="tablecontent">none</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3169267" role="tablecontent">This value is outside of limits valid for this format</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3153188" role="tablecontent">501</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148645" role="tablecontent">Invalid character</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155854" role="tablecontent">Character in a formula is not valid.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3145253" role="tablecontent">502</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147397" role="tablecontent">Invalid argument</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153160" role="tablecontent">Function argument is not valid. For example, a negative number for the SQRT() function, for this please use IMSQRT().</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154015" role="tablecontent">503<br/>#NUM!</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155766" role="tablecontent">Invalid floating point operation</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159266" role="tablecontent">A calculation results in an overflow of the defined value range.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3149258" role="tablecontent">504</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147344" role="tablecontent">Parameter list error</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147003" role="tablecontent">Function parameter is not valid, for example, text instead of a number, or a domain reference instead of cell reference.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3154532" role="tablecontent">507, 508</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150107" role="tablecontent">Error: Pair missing</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149129" role="tablecontent">Missing bracket, for example, closing brackets, but no opening brackets</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3149895" role="tablecontent">509</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155097" role="tablecontent">Missing operator</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154649" role="tablecontent">Operator is missing, for example, "=2(3+4) * ", where the operator between "2" and "(" is missing.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3153813" role="tablecontent">510</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153483" role="tablecontent">Missing variable</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154710" role="tablecontent">Variable is missing, for example when two operators are together "=1+*2".</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3154739" role="tablecontent">511</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145112" role="tablecontent">Missing variable</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145319" role="tablecontent">Function requires more variables than are provided, for example, AND() and OR().</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3149050" role="tablecontent">512</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150393" role="tablecontent">Formula overflow</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159259" role="tablecontent">
+ <emph>Compiler:</emph> the total number of internal tokens, (that is, operators, variables, brackets) in the formula exceeds 8192.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3150537" role="tablecontent">513</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147412" role="tablecontent">String overflow</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145635" role="tablecontent">
+ <emph>Compiler:</emph> an identifier in the formula exceeds 64 kB in size. <emph>Interpreter:</emph> a result of a string operation exceeds 64 kB in size.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3149147" role="tablecontent">514</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157904" role="tablecontent">Internal overflow</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149352" role="tablecontent">Sort operation attempted on too much numerical data (max. 100000) or a calculation stack overflow.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3154842" role="tablecontent">515</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147424" role="tablecontent">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148438" role="tablecontent">Unknown error.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3154841" role="tablecontent">516</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147423" role="tablecontent">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148437" role="tablecontent">Matrix is expected on the calculation stack, but is not available.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3155261" role="tablecontent">517</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153934" role="tablecontent">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149507" role="tablecontent">Unknown code, for example, a document with a newer function is loaded in an older version that does not contain the function.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3148585" role="tablecontent">518</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149189" role="tablecontent">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149545" role="tablecontent">Variable is not available</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146142" role="tablecontent">519<br/>#VALUE!</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155954" role="tablecontent">No value (instead of Err:519 cell displays #VALUE!)</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153108" role="tablecontent">The formula yields a value that does not correspond to the definition; or a cell that is referenced in the formula contains text instead of a number.<comment>i63264</comment></paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3150338" role="tablecontent">520</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150017" role="tablecontent">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148758" role="tablecontent">Compiler creates an unknown compiler code.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3154324" role="tablecontent">521<br/>#NULL!</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153737" role="tablecontent">Internal syntax error (instead of Err:521 cell displays #NULL!)</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155436" role="tablecontent">No code or no result.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3153045" role="tablecontent">522</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149008" role="tablecontent">Circular reference</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157972" role="tablecontent">Formula refers directly or indirectly to itself and the <emph>Iterations</emph> option is not set under <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences
+</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - %PRODUCTNAME Calc - Calculate.<comment>UFI: fixes #i23854#</comment></paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3149538" role="tablecontent">523</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150930" role="tablecontent">The calculation procedure does not converge</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150272" role="tablecontent">Function missed a targeted value, or <link href="text/shared/optionen/01060500.xhp">iterative references</link> do not reach the minimum change within the maximum steps that are set.<comment>UFI: see #33769#</comment></paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153544" role="tablecontent">524<br/>#REF!</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154634" role="tablecontent">Not a valid reference (instead of Err:524 cell displays #REF!)</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147539" role="tablecontent">
+ <emph>Compiler:</emph> a column or row description name could not be resolved. <emph>Interpreter:</emph> in a formula, the column, row, or sheet that contains a referenced cell is missing.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155984" role="tablecontent">525<br/>#NAME?</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148428" role="tablecontent">invalid names (instead of Err:525 cell displays #NAME?)</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156259" role="tablecontent">An identifier could not be evaluated, for example, no valid reference, no valid domain name, no column/row label, no macro, incorrect decimal divider, add-in not found.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3153720" role="tablecontent">526</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154315" role="tablecontent">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3083286" role="tablecontent">Obsolete, no longer used, but could come from old documents if the result is a formula from a domain.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3152483" role="tablecontent">527</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152966" role="tablecontent">Internal overflow</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149709" role="tablecontent">
+ <emph>Interpreter: </emph>References, such as when a cell references a cell, are too encapsulated.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3152484" role="tablecontent">530</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id4152967" role="tablecontent">No AddIn</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149710" role="tablecontent">
+ <emph>Interpreter: </emph>AddIn not found.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id3152485" role="tablecontent">531</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152967" role="tablecontent">No Macro</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149711" role="tablecontent">
+ <emph>Interpreter: </emph>Macro not found.</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5324564" role="tablecontent">532<br/>#DIV/0!</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7941831" role="tablecontent">Division by zero</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5844294" role="tablecontent">Division operator / if the denominator is 0<br/>Some more functions return this error, for example:<br/>VARP with less than 1 argument<br/>STDEVP with less than 1 argument<br/>VAR with less than 2 arguments<br/>STDEV with less than 2 arguments<br/>STANDARDIZE with stdev=0<br/>NORMDIST with stdev=0</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id231549820000708" role="tablecontent">533</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id951549820044260" role="tablecontent">Nested arrays are not supported</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id781549820065619" role="tablecontent"> For example, ={1;{2}} </paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id961549825716936" role="tablecontent">538</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id521549825734781" role="tablecontent">Error: Array or matrix size</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id601549825744677" role="tablecontent" localize="false"> - </paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id41549825806618" role="tablecontent">539</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id931549825818729" role="tablecontent">Unsupported inline array content</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id551549825825905" role="tablecontent"> For example, ={1+2} </paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph localize="false" id="par_id441549825884434" role="tablecontent">540</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id131549825893410" role="tablecontent">External content disabled</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id881549825900965" role="tablecontent"> Happens if a function that requires (re)loading of external sources is encountered and the user hasn't confirmed reloading of external sources yet </paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ </tablerow>
+ </table>
+ </body>
+</helpdocument>
diff --git a/helpcontent2/source/text/scalc/05/empty_cells.xhp b/helpcontent2/source/text/scalc/05/empty_cells.xhp
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+
+
+<!--
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ * with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ * License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ -->
+<helpdocument version="1.0">
+<meta>
+<topic id="textscalc05empty_cellsxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Handling of Empty Cells</title>
+<filename>/text/scalc/05/empty_cells.xhp</filename>
+</topic>
+</meta>
+<body>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3146799">
+ <bookmark_value>empty cells;handling of</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark><comment>i86303</comment>
+<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id1502121" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><variable id="empty_cells"><link href="text/scalc/05/empty_cells.xhp">Handling of Empty Cells</link></variable></paragraph>
+
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8266853" xml-lang="en-US">In older versions of the software, empty cells were forced to numeric 0 in some contexts and to empty string in others, except in direct comparison where =A1=0 and =A1="" both resulted in TRUE if A1 was empty. Emptiness now is inherited until used, so both =VLOOKUP(...)=0 and =VLOOKUP(...)="" give TRUE if the lookup resulted in an empty cell being returned. </paragraph>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id2733542" xml-lang="en-US">A simple reference to an empty cell is still displayed as numeric 0 but is not necessarily of type numeric anymore, so also comparisons with the referencing cell work as expected. </paragraph>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id4238715" xml-lang="en-US">For the following examples, A1 contains a number, B1 is empty, C1 contains the reference to B1:</paragraph>
+<table id="tab_id771535142746120">
+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph id="par_id291535142746121" role="tablehead" xml-lang="en-US">Case</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph id="par_id441535142746121" role="tablehead" xml-lang="en-US">Formula</paragraph>
+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
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+ <paragraph id="par_id941535142746122" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US">A1: 1<br/>B1: &lt;Empty&gt;</paragraph>
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+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph id="par_id851535142974516" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false"><embedvar href="text/scalc/05/empty_cells.xhp#vtrue" markup="ignore"/></paragraph>
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+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph id="par_id161535143000810" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false">=C1=0</paragraph>
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+ <tablecell>
+ <paragraph id="par_id941535143000810" role="tablecontent" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false"><embedvar href="text/scalc/05/empty_cells.xhp#vtrue" markup="ignore"/></paragraph>
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+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
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+ <tablecell>
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+ <tablecell>
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+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
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+ <tablecell>
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+ <tablerow>
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+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
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+ </tablecell>
+ <tablecell>
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+ <tablerow>
+ <tablecell>
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