Kyle Bowles wrote:
I'm a student at Oregon State University where you may know Open Office has its server in the Open Source Labs. I just began using open office since I came to campus and am finding one feature extremely annoying. I personally like to write my dates yyyy.mm.dd however, as you may know Open Office Calc is VERY picky about them being one way and ONLY one way. Even Microsoft Office has more date options that really do work. Whenever I happen to write a date, I have my date changed, to the format mm/dd/yy not only is this one of the worst, most illogical ways for a date to be kept, but unless I insert an additional symbol, it is the format Open Office is trying to inflict upon me. For the sake of people who use different formats everywhere, open your options to include all the date types windows supports. Everytime it's changed is another time I feel like I should just reinstall Microsoft Office. My date format is perfect for my use, and my company's use. It's also the most intuitive, and its a big problem if I can't easily insert it. And if I'm having problems with software, I'm not going to be refering people to it so much. Thank you for your time. Have a nice day.
What on Earth are you talking about? Have a look at Format>Cells>Numbers and either use one of the many formats available there, or roll your own!!
Of course, if you are referring to the input line, then it shows the date in the style of the underlying operating system - which you have presumably specified - but it appears formatted as you have chosen in the cell(s).
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