Manfred J. Krause wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 06:02, Girard Aquino wrote: > >> just a quick one... is there a way to set writer to always insert dates >> (or other fields for that matter) in a specific format. Using >> Insert>Fields>Date always chooses 11/13/08 as the format, and one would >> have to change it if they don't want that formatting. Can this be done >> other than through Insert>Fields>Other? >> > > My ultimate solution has been to install an extension -> > > DateTime2 > by re-Solutions Software Test > > > So I can insert (e.g. with a shortcut key) > 2008-11-14 11:31 > instead of > 11/14/08 11:31:59 AM > > Manfred > > took some time for me to realize that tb wasn't downloading my hotmail due to the new hotmail website. (now i have 18xx messages to download from the mailing lists).
thanks for the replies and i will check them out and post back. i would like to be able to set OOo to insert dates as November 21, 2008 by default on my documents though... _________________________________________________________________