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"

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