Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 24 January, 2012, 14:38 Am 24.01.2012 15:17, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think for data-entry it is best to enter the date as &g

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.01.2012 15:17, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think for data-entry it is best to enter the date as 01/24/2012 If you want to enter dates of the current month (January 2012 at the time of this writing) then you simply enter 1/ 13/ 4/ 30/ 15/ This will enter the *correct cell values* _unless_

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
rote: From: MSwhip Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 24 January, 2012, 12:58 This is my reply to all of y

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.01.2012 13:58, MSwhip wrote: This is my reply to all of you that made suggestions or stated your views. They were all very useful. With regards to the question about what exactly I was asking, the first issue was ...should I enter the date as "24 January 2012," or "January 24 2012" or '0

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread MSwhip
This is my reply to all of you that made suggestions or stated your views. They were all very useful. With regards to the question about what exactly I was asking, the first issue was ...should I enter the date as "24 January 2012," or "January 24 2012" or '01/24/2012' or 24/01/2012 for the sof

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-21 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.01.2012 09:27, MSwhip wrote: I am interested in learning how to enter dates in cells in a format that would allow me to calculate number of days lapsed between a "from date" and a "to date" entered in 2 different cells. Could anyone please help Thank you Date entry works almost indepen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-20 Thread jorge
Hi: You only have to input like this example: in cell A1 : 10/12/2011 in cell B1 : 12/12/2011 in cell C1 : +B1-A1 ---> Result = 2 in cell C1 Regards, Jorge Rodríguez ___ El jue, 19-01-2012 a las 08:25 -0800, Tom escribió: > Hi :) > I think you are no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-19 Thread Dan Lewis
Here is how I do it. I use Column A for the beginning date,Column B for the ending date, and Row 1 for the column headings. I enter the first beginning date in cell A2 and first ending date in cell B2. I continue adding the beginning and ending dates down these two columns. In cell C

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-19 Thread Tom
Hi :) I think you are not fully subscribed to the list yet. Is there a "confirmation email" waiting in your spam/junk folder? Don't you just format the cells as Dates rather than numbers or text and then just do one cell - the other and have the answer cell formatted as date too? Regards from Tom