https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130745

--- Comment #7 from [email protected] <[email protected]> ---
If type of data is column-specific, and format is matched to data type, then
shouldn’t the entire column be given the same format? 

Regardless of the philosophy behind settings in the dialog, there is a clear
usability problem: someone who loads in data from a CSV file and then tries to
edit those data in Calc will sometimes end up with corrupted data. There are
many examples online of people asking how to avoid having Calc set formatting
to dates when opening a CSV, and the responses always say to use this setting
in this dialog. Here is an example:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-format-a-column-of-calendar-dates-in-calc/55289.
It appears, then, that preventing formatting a column as date is the expected
behavior of setting the type to text.

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