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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May  3 18:16:32 -0700 
2005 -------
Doing this: "Change column C to Default number format and it will work (Cell
format->Number format->Standard)." as mentioned in a comment below does not
work, at least not with Openoffice 2.x

I had a wedding guestlist and the number of invitees per invitation in a column.
Some of these numbers were text for some reason. I tried and tried again and
again to change the numbers into numbers but it would never work. I finally got
it fixed by converting to csv, then re-importing.

I had a similar problem with the postal codes and zip codes in openoffice. It
thinks the postal codes, like V6Y1G2 are strings (fair enough), but it thinks
the zip codes are numbers. I could not get this column to change to "string
format) by using the Cell format->number format->standard prescription. This
causes big problems when I create an Openoffice Base (database) linked to this
spreadsheet for the data. The databse will assume the data in that field/column
is a certain datatype and ignore those things which aren't in the same datatype.
So many of the records are missing any content in that field. Again, I had to
convert to csv, then re-import the file.

Big huge pain in the ass. Might be just a 2.x issue for me, I've never seen this
before. The major broken functionality here is the Cell format->number
format->standard part. Are there any other bugs for this?

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