On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:04 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> OOo 3.2 under Ubuntu 10.04

Hi, saw your post over on evolution@ :)

> Here's what I have. 678-row Calc file, names & addresses and some
> additional information. One of those is a column for "date on list".
> Unfortunately the way I get the file, as a CSV, those entries are
> not formatted specifically as dates, even though they all follow a
> common format of MM/DD/YYYY. I note that each entry is preceded *in the
> edit window*, but *not* in the cell itself, by a single quote. I believe
> this single quote is a forced text format identifier of some sort. 

=DATEVALUE($CELL) will convert a text representation of a date to a date
value.
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