Re: [users] Date Interpretation - Calc

2010-04-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 1 April 2010 14:15, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 11:48 01/04/2010 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.1.1 on Win XP Pro. I have a column of dates in a text (.txt) file and want to copy them into a column of a Calc sheet. I can't because Calc insists on changing the

Re: [users] Re: Date Interpretation - Calc

2010-04-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 1 April 2010 17:16, Andreas Saeger saege...@onlinehome.de wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.1.1 on Win XP Pro. I have a column of dates in a text (.txt) file and want to copy them into a column of a Calc sheet. I can't because Calc insists on changing the values. The first few lines

Re: [users] Date Interpretation - Calc

2010-04-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 01.04.2010 12:48, Harold Fuchs a écrit : OOo 3.1.1 on Win XP Pro. I have a column of dates in a text (.txt) file and want to copy them into a column of a Calc sheet. I can't because Calc insists on changing the values. The first few lines of the .txt file look like this: Fri Apr 30 Fri

[users] Re: Date Interpretation - Calc

2010-04-02 Thread Andreas Saeger
Harold Fuchs wrote: Thanks, Andreas. That works. I didn't realise that Fri Apr 30 is US English and *not* British English. Looks perfectly OK to this Brit. Well, as a German I think that the computer program interpretes these expressions as US dates simply because the month portion is

[users] Slightly OT: OpenOffice.org Menu FIrefox add-on

2010-04-02 Thread David B Teague
Can someone tell me whom I should ask about the OO.o Menu Firefox add-on? I do not believe it has been updated since FF 2.x. I found it useful. I suppose I could just find the several links it provided ... --David Teague

Re: [users] Slightly OT: OpenOffice.org Menu FIrefox add-on

2010-04-02 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net To: users@openoffice.org users@openoffice.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:11:08 -0400 Can someone tell me whom I should ask about the OO.o Menu Firefox add-on? I do not believe it has been updated since FF 2.x. I

Re: [users] Slightly OT: OpenOffice.org Menu FIrefox add-on

2010-04-02 Thread David B Teague
Dave Thanks, I'll try that. I recalled that some provision can be made to force an incompatible add-on, but I didn't know where to look. DBTsr On 4/2/2010 6:20 PM, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: David B Teaguedavidbtea...@verizon.net To:

[users] Trouble with 'Selection Lists'

2010-04-02 Thread Floyd Noel
When updating a name address database, I would like to speed up data entry by using the 'CTRL D' feature in an empty data field to get a list of previously entered data in that column. When I do this I get absolutely no results. What am I doing wrong?

Re: [users] Slightly OT: OpenOffice.org Menu FIrefox add-on

2010-04-02 Thread David B Teague
On 4/2/2010 6:20 PM, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: David B Teaguedavidbtea...@verizon.net To: users@openoffice.orgusers@openoffice.org Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:11:08 -0400 Can someone tell me whom I should ask about the OO.o Menu Firefox add-on? I do not

Re: [users] Trouble with 'Selection Lists'

2010-04-02 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:37 02/04/2010 -0500, Floyd Noel wrote: When updating a name address database, I would like to speed up data entry by using the 'CTRL D' feature in an empty data field to get a list of previously entered data in that column. When I do this I get absolutely no results. What am I doing