Bug 31730

I managed to reproduce this situation on LibreOffice 3.4  340m1 on OpenSuse. Also, I can confirm that the series is repeated rather than progressing in Gnumeric 1.10.12.

It seems that LibreOffice Calc's problem is that when it cannot discern a patter among the numbers highlighted, it decides to increment each element in the row as you drag the box down. For example, I tried 1,3,5, and obvious arithmetic progression and Calc responded properly with 7,9 etc. However, when I did 1,1,1,2,1, there is no obvious pattern in the series, so Calc prints 2,2,2,3,2.

I do not know if this is a bug though, because with gypsy's case, if he or she only intends on repeating the series, then copy and paste would be just as viable a solution. If there is no obvious pattern in the series, so far that Calc cannot tell, then there would be no need to carry out the drag box.

My opinion is that this is a matter of preference for the two softwares: Calc prefers to increment when there is no clear pattern, and Gnumeric repeats when there is no pattern. It would be appreciated if both can recognize more patterns, however, such as geometric progressions, which when I tested on both, both seemed not to be able to recognize.

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uh? what kind of info do you need? just try it...
I don't think is a good idea to close bugs just 'cause they are old :)

Easy to find out: it's a Spreadsheet problem
Modified version due to test result that I already see current behavior in OOo 1.1.5

Currently I can't see any bug, I agree with Jeffrey's analysis. LibO simply does a little different.

Without new arguments I will close this bug after 10 days as WONTFIX

@gypsymauro:
> ... what kind of info do you need ...

for example the one I added? And the one I still have to ask for, may be hints on <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> will help you to find out what information will be useful to reproduce your problem?

Please
- add information
  -- what EXACTLY you expect (general rule, not for your example)
  -- and WHY do you believe it's unexpected (cite Help or Documentation!)

It would be appreciated if software would like to add numbers in series as YOU need, but the problem is that it is just... software. Excel 2010 uses different logic also.
Therefore I will mark this as RESOLVED WONTFIX (per Rainer intent in comment 8) as this is more per user and case by case issue.