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[ILUG] OpenOffice and Autocorrect madness

[ILUG] OpenOffice and Autocorrect madness

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Thu May 6 11:13:38 IST 2004


On Thursday 6 May 2004, dermot.daly at itsmobile.com (Dermot Daly) wrote:

>Wondering if anyone knows how to fix this irritation in OpenOffice.org.
>
>Using the writer, when I type a date such as 06/05/2004 in a table cell,
>it automatically changes it to 06/05/04.
>
>I do not want this to happen.  I cannot find any option to avoid it
>happening.  I googled, and oooforum'd and have found nothing.

Just hazarding a guess, as I'm not near a box with OOo on, but I think this
may simply be an issue of cell formatting which you should be able to fix with
a custom date format.




Niall



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