On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:50:08 +0000 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 11:03 24/02/2018 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: > >I'm using the version in the subject line on Linux Mint. In calc if > >I insert the date using the insert menu and the date option I get a > >cell with today's date, formatted comprehensibly. > > I'm not sure what you mean here. If you are using the =TODAY() or > =NOW() functions, what you have is not today's date but the current > date whenever your spreadsheet is reopened. I'm not using a function. In calc I pull down the insert menu and click on date. Then the cell contents are text characters with today's date. Not a function. This is what I'd like to be able to do in Writer. Thanks to those who suggested workarounds. Dave > > >If I do the same thing in Writer I can't, the option isn't there. I > >must (as far as I know) choose field then date. That gives me text > >that looks like "Date (fixed)" which is not what I want. I can do a > >print preview and see > >that it will render as one might wish but that's not what I want. I > >really want to be able to simply insert today's date as a character > >string. > > I think your only problem here is that you have fields set to show > the field name instead of their value. You can toggle this display at > View | Field Names (or Ctrl+F9). Then you will see the date value as > text in the editing display as well as in Page Preview and actual > printout. > > >Can anyone tell me a simple way to insert the data as characters > >rather than a field? > > o Copy the field. > o Paste it back over itself, but using Edit | Paste Special... (or > right-click | Paste Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V) and selecting > "Unformatted text" in the Paste Special dialogue. > > Er, or just type the date: the default format is only eight > characters (in my locale). > > >I think the behaviour I'm seeing breaks wysiwyg. > > I hope so. Wysiwyg was always a bad idea: what you need in the > editing display is a clear indication of the structure of your > document, not necessarily its appearance. That way, you can see and > have some control over what will happen when it is displayed on > another system or you (or others) make any change. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
