Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you want pointers to find out about settings and configs for other languages and/or countries then you might find the international translators mailing list quite useful l...@global.libreoffice.org Sounds like Brian has helped you fix it already though :) Congrats! :) Regards from Tom :

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-07 Thread Philip Ward
Hi Brian Thanks for your help, our studies on other cultures at school was very vague, and as of yet, never needed to understand another calendar.. It could possibly be a red herring like you say, i just put 2 and 2 together, and came up with 5, maybe i should have used a spreadsheet :D Im

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Brian Barker
At 00:05 07/07/2014 +0100, Philip Ward wrote: On 06/07/2014 17:01, Brian Barker wrote: At 13:12 06/07/2014 +0100, Philip Ward wrote: ... and now i went in to alter the format of the cell ie Date details "D " giving me "Monday 6 October 2014" but now want to shorten the date down

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Phil
Hi Brian I have just opened the file in question on my Imac at home 10.6.8 running LO 4.2.4.2. The default User interface is English USA, Local Setting is UK, and default currency is GBP, ill check the laptop & works imac tomorrow for specifics etc The alterations i did earlier after i sent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Tom Cloyd
I save to my Dropbox. Don't think that's relevant, though. Can't figure how it would be. Tom On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Philip Ward wrote: > Hi Tom > > i forgot to add, the first time i saw the corruption was on OSX 10.6.8 > running LO 3.X (cant remember), but that was only opening the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:12 06/07/2014 +0100, Philip Ward wrote: ... and now i went in to alter the format of the cell ie Date details "D " giving me "Monday 6 October 2014" but now want to shorten the date down to "mon 6 oct 2014", but its now telling me options for jewish?? ie " [~jewish]D MMM

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Tom Cloyd
UPDATE: So sorry. I stupidly forgot to include info. about my operating environment - it's Kubuntu Linux 14.04 and I'm running LO Version: 4.3.0.2 Build ID: 14ed55896fdfcb93ff437b85c4f3e1923d2b1409. We are, of course, talking about Calc. t. On 07/06/2014 06:12 AM, Philip Ward wrote: Hi Guys,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Tom Cloyd
Phil, Yeah. I sure do know this problem, too. For many months. I can't see the pattern. I can't seem to reduce the matter to a simple demonstration so I can file a bug report. I've simply given up for now. I just fix things and keep on sailing. Whatever it is is pervasive, highly corrupting,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Philip Ward
Hi Tom i forgot to add, the first time i saw the corruption was on OSX 10.6.8 running LO 3.X (cant remember), but that was only opening the file, not saving, so i decided not to use that one again... do you save locally or Dropbox or somthing else? cheers Phil On 6 July 2014 13:44, Tom Cloyd

[libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets not keeping correct formulas and showing jewish?

2014-07-06 Thread Philip Ward
Hi Guys, Running 4.1.3.2 Libreoffice, on Win 7 64Bit, and having a few annoyances?? i have a multi sheet document, page one has some dates on it, and these dates are then grabbed by the following sheets to make the dates work on them etc?? sometimes i load up the document, and the formula's all