(Win7/LibO-Calc) Bug in tool Multiple operations?

> In LibO-Calc there is a very interesting and useful tool "Data/Multiple
> operations" -- at least as useful as "Pivot Table".
>
> When I recently updated an old calculation process created some 3-4
> years ago in OpenO and recreated it in LibO-3.4.5, I noticed that one of
> the tool's flexible features had vanished.
>
> In the 'new' Calc the first cells of both "row input cell" E5 (of E5,
> F5, G5,..etc.) and "column input cell" D6 (of D6, D7, D8, ..etc.)
> require a manually inserted absolute value -- the next values
> (increasing or decreasing by a difference) can be formulas calculating
> from the value before.
> [...]
> Is it a bug or what is the explanation? Can I correct this in any way?
> My PC is a Win7Prof/32bit.

>
> When I recently updated an old calculation process created some 3-4
> years ago in OpenO and recreated it in LibO-3.4.5, I noticed that one of
> the tool's flexible features had vanished.
>
> In the 'new' Calc the first cells of both "row input cell" E5 (of E5,
> F5, G5,..etc.) and "column input cell" D6 (of D6, D7, D8, ..etc.)
> require a manually inserted absolute value -- the next values
> (increasing or decreasing by a difference) can be formulas calculating
> from the value before.

> Hi Pertti,
>
> Pertti Rönnberg schrieb:
>> Hello, LibO folks,
>>
>> In LibO-Calc there is a very interesting and useful tool "Data/Multiple
>> operations" -- at least as useful as "Pivot Table".
>
> Yes, it is hidden and cannot be written with the function wizard. But
> it is possible to write the function manually, you do not need Data >
> Multiple.Operations.
>
>>
>> When I recently updated an old calculation process created some 3-4
>> years ago in OpenO and recreated it in LibO-3.4.5, I noticed that one of
>> the tool's flexible features had vanished.
>>
>> In the 'new' Calc the first cells of both "row input cell" E5 (of E5,
>> F5, G5,..etc.) and "column input cell" D6 (of D6, D7, D8, ..etc.)
>> require a manually inserted absolute value -- the next values
>> (increasing or decreasing by a difference) can be formulas calculating
>> from the value before.
>
> Please provide a small reduced spreadsheet document. It should contain
> nothing more than those things needed to trigger the error.
>
> Please post the content of a cell with the generated
> Multiple.Operations formula and please post the content of the formula
> cell, which will be the first parameter in the Multiple.Operations.
>
>>
>> In the "old" calculation these first cells (E5 and D6) could refer to
>> formulas ina remote cells which increases the flexibility and the
>> usability of the tool remarkably.
>
> What is a "remote cell". Do you try to use a cell from a different
> spreadsheet document?
>
> I have not found a regression. But I have difficulties to understand
> your explanation and therefore might miss something.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>