On Mon March 6 2006 16:07, + Lohkamp, Helmut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my name is Helmut Lohkamp (Ingelheim/Germany).
> I try to learn a lot about Ooo to e able to run it in our parish (no money
> for MS Office!!!).
> I have some background on relational databases because I was part of a team
> who created a
> database with about 4 TB of data in DB2 6 years ago.
>
> I have installed Ooo 2.0 and try to set up some tables in Base.
>
> One of those are set as DEC 4.1. Up to this point I did not face problem,
> but when I enter
> decimal data like 49,4 it is shown as 494,0 when I jump to the next set of
> data.
> Is anyone familiar with this problem and can help?
>
> I could change from DEC to INTEGER and divide by 10 later, but that does
> not appear to
> be the “professional” way of doing it.
>
> Regards from Ingelheim
> Helmut
>
> PS So far I find Ooo 2.0 really great!!! Started now to learn about macro.

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On Mon March 6 2006 16:54, Bjoern Milcke wrote:
>
> Maybe a locale issue. Have you tried entering 49.4? (Alternatively: does
>   entering 0049,4 work?) If 49.9 works, you should check your language
> settings in Tools/Options.

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