On 01/29/2010 05:18 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It would appear that on Jan 29, Brian Barker did say:
At 12:13 28/01/2010 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It drives me to distraction whenever my date is converted from:
11:20 am to 11:20:00 AM
...
If I understand you correctly, the switch is at Tools | Options... |
OpenOffice.org Writer | Table | Input in tables | Number recognition. Remove
the tick there, and your input will not be interfered with.
Thanks! I'll try that. I still wish there was an easy toggle to disable all
forms of auto-conversion/correction/capitalization/substitution/adnauseum
in one fell swoop. I always want my software to assume that I meant what I
actually typed, and to please stop trying to second guess me. But now that I
know where that particular switch is... Like I said thanks!
There is a shortcut to the setting Brian mentioned: right click in any
table and choose "Number recognition" to toggle the setting. This is a
global, application-level setting, and when it is off, Writer will
always take what you type in a table as literal text, and make no
automatic conversions.
The closest you can get to a "master switch" is Format > AutoCorrect >
While Typing: OFF, but that does not affect the table entry.
Perhaps the difference is not in the different versions, but simply that the
option mentioned above is set differently in your different installations?
Don't think so, because not having tripped over the above option, I never
(un)set it before. ...
As you might imagine, there is a great deal of discussion and variant
opinions on what Writer's default configuration should be here. I'm only
guessing, but it could be that your different installations were built
to use different defaults for this feature. I also believe that the
default for the OO.org builds has changed in different versions.
Just a word of advice (not that you asked): the automatic features are
very annoying until you learn how to take advantage of them, at which
point they become quite useful.
It's worth learning to use them, even though that's a little harder than
just turning them off.
<Joe
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