2008/7/17 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 17:29 16/07/2008 -0600, Floyd Beaver wrote: > >> I have a writer document that keeps my logins and passwords. One of my >> logins starts with a zero. When I type the number starting with a zero, the >> zero disappears as soon as I leave the field. How can I make OpenOffice 3 >> keep what I type? OOo3-Dev on Vista >> > > I don't have version 3, but I'm puzzled by this. Do you really mean a > Writer (text) document, not a Calc spreadsheet? If so, what exactly do you > mean by a "field" in this context? (I suspect you cannot mean what Writer > calls a field.) I cannot reproduce your problem (with 2.4.1) in ordinary > text or in table cells, for example. > > If you are actually using a spreadsheet, you simply need to tell Calc what > your values are - and if they are login names, they will be text items, not > numeric values. They may happen to be entirely numeric, but they are not > numbers as such; if they were, you would welcome any leading zeroes being > stripped. Select the relevant cells (or, better, perhaps the column) and go > to Format | Cells... | Numbers. Under Category, scroll down to Text. Now > try entering your values again (or editing them). > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker >
Hello, The field in Writer is a field in a table. I can confirm this behaviour in the beta-2 (actually the Mac Aqua version). In a table in Writer, the 0 at the beginning of a number gets stripped, unless you put a return after the number (?!) In Calc, you can specify the cell format (or use a ' before the number), but in Writer you don't have this option. Unless filing a request to introduce cell formats in Writer tables, the only solution I see is putting a return after the number... (the ' before the number is visible). (I hope Floyd is subscribed, lost the original mail) -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
