Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> A new OOo user is using Calc to store information on volunteers in an >> organization. Israeli ID numbers are 9 digits in length, such as this: >> 317907977 >> >> However, Calc has reformated them to this: >> 317908000 >> >> This is a major dataloss for the organization. The person in charge is >> pissed, and both myself and OOo are to blame. OOo is already coming >> off their machines (14 desktops, and I think a few laptops as well) >> and I am tasked with recovering the missing data. Is this possible? >> >> > Well you certainly seem to have something very ODD going on - Calc 3.01 > here doesn't do that, it just displays the original 9-digit number...
No problem here either (version 3.1.0.98.1 on OpenSUSE 11.2-m2). I tried formatting as both number and text and there was no difference. How long after entering the data did reformatting occur? -- Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy "I wear the cheese. It does not wear me." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
