> Send away. I'll be happy to try and reproduce if you'd like. I don't > think I have anything earlier than 2.4.1 around (well except for my > original StarOffice 5.1 CD), but Ubuntu has files going back to 2.0.2 > that I can load. >
I cannot send to you the original file, as it contains sensitive information, but in 2.x try entering this into a cell: 317907977. Open it and modify in a later version of 2.x then in 3.0 then 3.1. See if it rounds up. >> There were other dealbreakers as well, such as the American dates >> issue when editing a date in Calc. That was and continued to be a huge >> issue, and has caused dataloss in the past. Why is the least >> significant figure (days) in the American date format in the middle?!? >> Do American didgital watches use the HH:SS:MM format by any chance? > > Only if you buy one from Wal-Mart. But dates are locale & language > dependent... as they are in MSO. > Correct, but OOo ignores the system setting: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5556 Here was another date-related bug in OOo that caused the same organization grief: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85362 >> And what of backups? Some files, but not all due to space >> considerations, will simply be put in a BackMeUp directory that will >> be copied to DVD whenever someone feels like it. >> > > Well... you already know the answer to that one. > 42? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
