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User mfrasca changed the following: What |Old value |New value ================================================================================ Status|RESOLVED |UNCONFIRMED -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|WORKSFORME | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 7 10:35:37 +0000 2008 ------- I understand that it is possible to select each of the columns containing numbers like 17.03 and 6.12, inform the importer that the column contains "US English" data, but the problem is: rule for date: dd-mm-yyyy rule for number: x,d (but on the same system M$Excel uses x.d) input 17.03 does not respect either. having this interpreted as a date is surprising... I tried with this option: Tools->Options->Language Settings->Languages->Decimal separator key even if I leave it unchecked, it still does not work for me. moreover, this behaviour is not only in the importer but also for typed data. again: really no European would expect 1.13 to mean January 13th... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]