On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Lorna Richard <lornarichar...@ymail.com>wrote:
> Hi > I tried the backspace and also tried clearing the cell of all content and > it does not retain the function. Also control z and nothing will clear the > cell memory. > > Have you tried the "Delete" key? Backspace and Delete keys work differently. Depending how it is set up Backspace just may not remove from the cell what you wish it to. Ctrl+Z is undo. Depending what editing has been done and when there will be nothing for it to undo that is meaningful to correcting this problem. > > Also when setting the formate for how I want the date to apear the cell > does not remember this either > and goes back to auto correct. > I'm confused by this. "Auto correct" is not a format. Please click ONCE on the cell, next right-click on the cell. On the menu that appears after the right-click select "Clear Direct Formatting." That should return the cell to the default formatting for any type of value entered, date, number, text, etc. (If that's not the format you want let's not worry about that right now. I think maybe one thing at a time. See if we can get the information into the cell that you want then try to resolve formatting.) > > ... download it onto my new computer. > Did you download from http://www.openoffice.org/ If not I suggest you try downloading from there.Another source may not have the exact "official" version. > > ... just use the main computer to > do data imput. > > Laptop is very convenient. Hopefully we can figure this out with little enough effort that its worthwhile for you to stick it out through the troubleshooting. Alan
