At 18:19 27/12/2008 +0000, John Dolman wrote:
I have a considerable amount of information contained in tables
which were created in Word. These translated well enough in your
previous version of Open office although adding lines to the tables
is more complicated and time consuming than it was in Word.
However... in the new version of Open office the statistics which I
have entered as a/b are changed by the programme as if it thinks I
intended dates, so adding one figure, instead of reading a+1/b+1, it
comes out as 01/a+1/b+1. That's no good! The only way around it
which I have found is to change all my tables so the stats are
stored as a.b - mathematically that would mean a times b, so it is
not really satisfactory.
Can you help me get over this difficulty?
It's not particularly clear what you need here. Are the entries
meant to be fractions (and calculated with) or just text? If they
are to be text, there are two ways, I think, to prevent Writer being
over-helpful when you enter such items:
o Select the relevant cells - probably the whole table. Go to Table
| Number Format... (or right-click | Number Format...). Under
Category, select Text. New entries will now be treated as text.
o Disable this facility completely. Go to Tools | Options... |
OpenOffice.org Writer | Table | Input in tables, and remove the tick
from "Number recognition".
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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