With a Writer document open, click on the insert field in the menu bar, click on the Fields option, the in that box click on the Other option. You will then get a dialog box with several tabs. In the document tab, select time and you will be presented with several options for configuring the way the time field will appear when you use it.
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:09:20 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] Re: Time representation in Writer > > On 22/10/11 13:59, Bruce Lloyd wrote: > > I was making a timetable in a *table *in a document in Writer and having > > trouble getting time to show properly and wonder if there is a way to > > change the configuration. The problem is when I want to write a time as > > '8.30' Writer automatically truncates it to '8.3' if I use a colon then > > Writer automatically makes it 8:30:00 (or was it 08:30:00) which is > > equally unsatisfactory. The only way I could overcome the problem was > > make the time '8.31' or use a comma '8,30'. If I needed '8.00' it ended > > up as '8' unless I wrote it as '8,00' > > > > I can't see why Writer bothers with such things as removing a zero from > > the end of a decimal and presumably the problem/solution is in table > > properties or Auto Correct or Auto Complete but I could not find it. It > > doesn't seem to happen when 8.00 is written in text just in a table. Is > > there something I can change? > > > > regards > > Bruce > > Table | Number Format perhaps. But it still seems to like the time > entered with a ':'. > > > > -- > Mike Scott > Harlow, Essex, England > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > For additional commands send email to [email protected] > with Subject: help -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
