Oh hey, I just dealt with that a few weeks ago, too! If you're using OOO
Data -> "Text to Columns", after you've set the data type for an entire
column ("Format"->"Cells")


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, wes wrote:
>
> > another thought has occurred to me... if this is a one-time deal, you may
> > be able to just load it into Calc. there might be an option under
> > right-click -> format cells to change the date format.
>
> wes,
>
>    That's what I tried first. For a reason I haven't figured out, LO puts a
> leading ' on that field and won't let me format the cells as
> date/YYYY-MM-DD. I've done this with other data files but it just would not
> work on this one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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