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Description of problem: Autoincrement does not work when filling a series containing text. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fill a column with the following: A1 A2 A3 2. Highlight the three cells containing the above. 3. Right click on the lower right corner of the lowest cell, then drag down. Actual results: A dialog box will be presented with "Fill Series" options. None of the options work with text-number combinations. Expected results: The series should autoincrement like: A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 . A100 Additional info: This feature actually works on Ubuntu so I'm wondering if we can have the same feature on Fedora.
Should be quite straightforward to backport that.
(In reply to comment #1) > Should be quite straightforward to backport that. I'll just wait then for the updates. Thanks.
dtardon->herson: The backport itself was straightforward, indeed, but then I've found out that it's currently impossible to get that to work with the Fill Series dialog. I've patched it for simple scenarios like that one you presented, but it gives absolutely wrong results for more complicated ones (in other words: my code works if you don't touch anything in the dialog and just click OK). I'm working on it.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192948 ***