I had not seen the behavior you originally described until I forced OOo
to do the conversion(s). The default settings on my installation, which
is rather plain vanilla, don't cause the automatic conversions. In
other words, "text" is the default style for table cells which provides
the behavior you want and which is how OOo apparently ships. This
forces me to conclude that you tweaked a setting that is causing the
confounding behavior(s).
As for history, I was there, too. Ain't that big a deal unless that's
where you want to live. I don't. Of course, to be or not to be
curmudgeonly is as much a matter of choice as selecting an office suite.
Choosing wisely can be its own reward.
Doug
Scott Howell wrote:
I didn't say I wanted to go back to the '286 processor, but at least the
major word processor (Word Star) that that ran on the 286 didn't try to
guess what I wanted to type. 1/2 means 1/2 not the one-half symbol and 1/1
means 1/1 and not 1/1/2005. No user should have to go through the extra
steps for it to display it the way you typed it. It is just a bad design,
IMHO. Too much like Microsoft Office. Too much feature creep. I come from
the vi and emacs days using terminals and telnet sessions. Not bad; it gets
the job done w/o much fanfare.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [users] How you you configure it to stop converting 1/2 to the
one-half character???
Scott Howell wrote:
Again, I miss the days to limited memory/functionality word
processors. Attention DEVELOPERS....Think SIMPLE, think Word Star!!!!
Menu | Table > Number Format > Text (or whatever else you want)
And why on earth would you want to go back to an 8MHz 80286 with 64K RAM?
Doug
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