I think the cells have to be formatted correctly BEFORE the values are
entered, which probably make the whole thing impossible in this case. Maybe
someone want to write a macro that does the whole import thing "correctly",
as a temporary workaround?

Did you try to set all language settings to English first, close
OpenOffice.org, reopen it and then import the file again? I think that the
##.# -> YY-MM-DD conversion only happens for some language settings, like
Swedish since we use a decimal comma instead of a decimal point (and there
are other differences too, compared to UK, USA etc).

Johnny Andersson

2007/5/28, Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi Brengt,

Bengt Sebring wrote:
> The file is
> -a file crated from a dos-program and cleaned in Notes
>
> I do the following
> -Insert sheet from file
> -character set western Europe Dos Nordic
> -fixed width
> -manually set the tabs to suit

Have you tried different settings for the columns that give problems?
I have to select the format US-English in some cases.

> -OK and import
>
> Result as described.
>
> It is not possible to change the Format of the cells. The number does
> not come back to the original.

Regards,
Cor

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Arnhem - Netherlands
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