> 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!


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Dotan Cohen

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