On 01/14/2009 05:35 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-14, Niklas Nebel <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 01/14/09 01:22, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> Turning off "Number Recognition" worked. >>> >>> It seems every time OOo is updated, there's always some new >>> "feature" that I've got to spend hours figuring out how to >>> disable. >> >> Number/date recognition isn't exactly a *new* feature. > > I guess I just hadn't tripped over it before. Why the > assumption that everything entered in a table is supposed to be > a date? >
Seems pretty odd to me as well... BTW: you can turn off number recognition permanently in Writer. Per F1/Help: Turning Number Recognition On or Off in Tables OpenOffice.org can automatically format dates that you have entered into a table, according to the regional settings specified in your operating system. Do one of the following: Right-click in a table cell and choose Number recognition. When this feature is on, a check mark is displayed in front of the Number recognition command. Choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org Writer - Table, and select or clear the Number recognition check box. Seems to me the default should be 'off'. Seems that someone back in 2004 agreed: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27486 [Annoing Default: Number Recognition is per default on] And supposedly was switched off as default. So this looks to be a minor regression (I tested in OOo3.0.1RC2 -linux and the default was on). You might want to fire that issue report back up and see if if can be switched back off before OOo3.0.1 final gets released. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
