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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Sep 22 17:57:07 +0000 2009 ------- Problem presists since 2004. Why is that? To discourage people from using Calc from OpenOffice (and use some commercial product instead)? This is a major bug, a blocker. I have work to do, and it can not be done with OpenOffice. Work is simple. I have lots of data tables in PDFs. They all should be copied and pasted for further manipulation. But every cell containing sequence like 01- is converted to date - not on display formatting level - but original value is DESTROYED (if the conversion was made only on display level - without touching original data - there would be no issue at all) Dear OpenOffice team. Why do you keep on ignoring since 2004 that we, the users, want to have AN OPTION of converting pasted data to dates - OR NOT! Do you really think you know better what should be done with user's data than the user himself? Do you realize, that there are other countries, you know, "outside USA". Not all the world uses the same date format. Microsoft knows that. There are no problems with dates in any Microsoft product - no matter which language you use. It's 2009 now. 5 years. Can you please add a small checkbox to configuration ("turn of automatic date recognition") in 3.1.2? For now I must quit using OO for a while and look for an other spreadsheet software to finish my job. Shame. BTW, questions about my OS or locale should be irrelevant here. This issue is not about INCORRECT date recognition. It's about UNWANTED date recognition. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
