On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 12:14 +0200, Heinrich Bürgers wrote: > OK, > I found a workaround: > I changed to standardlanguage english GB and the points will be > recognised OK. > So this seems to be a comma problem with "German (Deutschland)" > but this solves not the problems with other data conversions as > described here: > http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/5/80 > so I am still searching for that autoformat off! > I want to format my data myself! > > thanks so far! > Heinrich
Sounds like a LOCALE problem to me. IIRC, Germany uses the comma as the decimal separator and . as the 1000's separator. To get US-en style, changing the LOCALE would seem to be a good bet. You could also see if http://people.via.ecp.fr/~remi/win/ooovirg/ooovirg.php3 could be used even though it is a 1.1.x utility. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
