Comment 8 for bug 262507

In my case, I should elaborate that the colour highlight appear for less
than a second, than disappear suddenly.

On 29 February 2016 at 20:35, Christopher M. Penalver <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> ** Tags added: xenial
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> Title:
> Named cells are not color-coded in cell-edit mode
>
> Status in LibreOffice:
> Incomplete
> Status in OpenOffice:
> Invalid
> Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in openoffice.org package in Ubuntu:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> 1) lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
> Release: 11.10
>
> 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc
> libreoffice-calc:
> Installed: 1:3.4.2-2ubuntu3
> Candidate: 1:3.4.2-2ubuntu3
> Version table:
> *** 1:3.4.2-2ubuntu3 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> 3) What is expected to happen with a cell containing the formula:
>
> =a*tau^t*delta^(d-1)*(l*delta^l - d)
>
> where a, tau, delta, d, and l are all named cells or cell-ranges, hit
> 'F2' to edit that formula, the usual nice trick of color-coded cell
> names and ranges shows.
>
> 4) What happens instead is they do not. One has no way of quickly
> seeing whether or not the correct values from other cells in the
> worksheet are picked.
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