A gripe about some Open Office quirks

[Orrex]

Specifically, the "Calc" program that approximates the function of Microsoft's Excel.

I've noticed that a lot of minor but convenient functions seem not to exist in Calc. Nothing fatal, and for all I know it may be easy to customize, but in the meantime these quirks really annoy me.

For one thing, when you select a bunch of cells containing numerical values, Calc doesn't seem to show the sum of those values as Excel does in the lower right corner--not fatal, as I said, but mildly inconvenient.

Additionally, when you manually select a bunch of cells in a column, Excel shows a count of how many you've selected, but Calc does not. This is also inconvenient.

There are other issues, such as different key-strokes, but these are even more minor.


Why would the folks behind Open Office make the conscious decision to diverge in this way from the program they're mimicking?