[OT] OpenOffice calc question

[Jerry Feldman]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:19:24 -0400
Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Certainly :-)
> > I spoke to my boss about it, and he has the same problem with that
> > unnamed tool from Redmond, but he thinks there is a global setting
> > somewhere for it that you can set the default settings. But, his
> > solution is the same as mine, maintain the .xls file (or .ods).  In any
> > case, it is probably not worth much more time that this exchange of
> > ideas :-)
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> You might file a bug with OpenOffice.  At the very least they'll tell you
> whether it can be done, or if they plan on doing anything about it...

I did get some answers. First, the issue on the default precision of
decimal numbers is settable. That solves the one of the issues. There
is no good solution to the date format. One solution would be to use
the Swedish locale, and that would set the default date format to
yy-mm-dd, but in this case the date must be yyyy-mm-dd. But, we are not
talking about a large number of fields.=20


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