Randolph D Garrett wrote: > This reminds me of a bug in Excel: entering a number as text it keeps > displaying it as a concatenated number (um, some scientific notation that > shortens it's length, I'm 46, I forgot my math, ok! ;-) ) until the field is > "touched" by clicking on the edit bar and hitting return! Format as text > fails! > > I used this trick in Excel to format a number as text:
Insert a single quote as the first character in the cell. I wonder if this works in OpenOffice.org? James M. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
