On Wednesday 14 January 2009 13:05:22 Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to create a table, and for some god-forsaken reason, > oowriter seems to think it's supposed to convert everyting I > type into dates if at all possible. I type 1-60, and it insists > on converting that to 01/01/60. I type 0-8, and that's left > alone (as it should be). > > How to I tell oowriter to stop messing with what I type? > > If I'd wanted 01/01/60, I'd have damn well _typed_ 01/01/60. > > God, how I hate programs that think they know better than I > what I'm trying to do...
Select table>number format scroll to the bottom of the list and select "text" -- "The Best Things in life are 3" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
