On 18/01/2008, TomW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dotan:
>
> I found that I could get your desired format (yyyy-mm-dd) in both the
> cell and the input line by changing the language in the cell formatting
> dialog to Swedish(Sweden). This is with my language set to US English in
> the OpenOffice Options - Language Settings. This worked in Windows XP
> SP2 OO2.4dev and a Linux Vitual Machine(Kubuntu)OO2.0.
> This allows you to keep the language you are working in, but select a
> different language for the cells you need to format in a unique way.
>
> TomW

Thanks for the tip, Tom. That is a workaround, not a solution. I'll
file the bug and report back.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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