LibreOffice Calc AutoFilter Empty cell not working

I’m running LibreOffice

Version: 5.0.3.2
Build ID: e5f16313668ac592c1bfb310f4390624e3dbfb75
Locale: en-AU (sv_SE.UTF-8)

On a MacOC High Sierra 10.13.6 and I’m having trouble with the AutoFilter function and empty cells in Calc. When I opt to filter so that only empty cells remain, it just returns none of my rows (until the end of the section for which I have applied AutoFilter). Observe:

Here’s a little small table* where row 6 is empty (notice it is not last):

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I apply AutoFilter to A1:A8 and opt to filter for empty cells.

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And this is the result

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This isn’t what I expected. Row 6 should remain. What trickery is this? All help appreciated, as long as it does not involve (i) rewriting LibreOffice code or (ii) using a macro. I expect to be able to do this easily, it shouldn’t require that much work - and yet I’m struggling. Please help.

Thanks.

  • yes I know it’s called a “doe”.

Aaahhh… Okay. This apparently is solved in Version: 6.3.5.2… curious.

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Interesting. Okay, I’ll leave this up here for the next person who is like me and mindlessly googles this problem and doesn’t find any answers. Apparently, the answer is to use a more recent version than 5.

Release 5.0.3 is more than 4 years old, so… yes.