Posts Tagged ‘ calc ’

OpenOffice.org / Libreoffice pasted numbers automatically get changed to dates

June 3, 2011
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Open Office Calc

I’ve been pasting some information from some weblogs into Calc (the OpenOffice / LibreOffice Excel equivalent) and some version numbers like 1.5.30 got changed to dates. All the documentation pointed me towards changing the cell format to text. That only works if you type the numbers, not if you paste them. When you paste...

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Open office to the rescue

July 6, 2009
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Last Thursday I was happily walking to the bus station to start a prolonged weekend when a friend and client ranged. Microsoft Excel was giving her trouble: she was working on some inventory files with lots of records and pretty complex. To add to the problem the data was copied and pasted from an...

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