@openoffice.apache.org
Cc: kieth lovell m3...@yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Sunday, 6 January 2013, 23:36
Subject: Re: (old) New feature/option to prevent autodata alterations in calc
Remember, that anything that begins as a number, Calc tries to interpret
as a number rather than text. For most users
From: Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Sent: Monday, 7 January 2013, 2:04
Subject: Re: (old) New feature/option to prevent autodata alterations in calc
Hi Kieth,
For years I have suffered as
1. numbers are turned to dates
is it really
Hi Kieth,
For years I have suffered as
1. numbers are turned to dates
is it really a number you want to input or do you use a number format ?
2. phone numbers are altered
In this case you can start your cell entry using a single quote
character. A trailing single quote
Remember, that anything that begins as a number, Calc tries to interpret
as a number rather than text. For most users, this is exactly what you
want most of the time. For a few unlucky people (like you), their
average use case is different than others, and you do not want that. It
is odd
